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| 1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, |
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| 2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart |
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| 3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh, |
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| 4 who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, |
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| 5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen. |
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| 6 And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel; |
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| 7 nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' |
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| 8 that is, the children of the flesh these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; |
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| 9 for the word of promise [is] this; 'According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.' |
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| 10 And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one Isaac our father |
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| 11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her |
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| 12 'The greater shall serve the less;' |
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| 13 according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' |
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| 14 What, then, shall we say unrighteousness [is] with God let it not be! |
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| 15 for to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' |
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| 16 so, then not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: |
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| 17 for the Writing saith to Pharaoh 'For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;' |
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| 18 so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. |
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| 19 Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault for His counsel who hath resisted ' |
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| 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus |
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| 21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour |
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| 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, |
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| 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call us |
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| 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, |
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| 25 as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what [is] not My people My people; and her not beloved Beloved, |
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| 26 and it shall be in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.' |
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| 27 And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, 'If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; |
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| 28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. |
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| 29 and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.' |
The Lord of Sabaoth – This is another way of saying: "the Lord (master or ruler) of armies." While not a quote, this is similar in concept to 1 Sam. 17:45. (The other occurence of this is in James 5:4.) |
| 30 What, then, shall we say that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith, |
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| 31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive; |
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| 32 wherefore because not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling, |
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| 33 according as it hath been written, 'Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.' |
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