Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 9
Romans 9 NASB - New American Standard BibleChapter 9 of Romans—New American Standard Bible (NASB)
- ¶ 1I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
- that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
- For 2I could [a]wish that I myself were 3accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen 4according to the flesh,
- who are 5Israelites, to whom belongs 6the adoption as sons, and 7the glory and 8the covenants and 9the giving of the Law and 10the temple service and 11the promises,
- whose are 12the fathers, and 13from whom is [b]the Christ according to the flesh, 14who is over all, 15God 16blessed [c]forever. Amen.
- ¶ But it is not as though 17the word of God has failed. 18For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
- nor are they all children 19because they are Abraham’s [d]descendants, but: “[e]20THROUGH ISAAC YOUR [f]DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED.”
- That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are 21children of God, but the 22children of the promise are regarded as [g]descendants.
- For this is the word of promise: “23AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON.”
- 24And not only this, but there was 25Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;
- for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that 26God’s purpose according to His choice would [h]stand, not [i]because of works but [j]because of Him who calls,
- it was said to her, “27THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER.”
- Just as it is written, “28JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.”
- ¶ 29What shall we say then? 30There is no injustice with God, is there? 31May it never be!
- For He says to Moses, “32I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.”
- So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who 33runs, but on 34God who has mercy.
- For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “35FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED [k]THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH.”
- So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He 36hardens whom He desires.
- ¶ 37You will say to me then, “38Why does He still find fault? For 39who resists His will?”
- On the contrary, who are you, 40O man, who 41answers back to God? 42The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
- Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel [l]for honorable use and another [m]for common use?
- [n]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much 43patience vessels of wrath 44prepared for destruction?
- And He did so to make known 45the riches of His glory upon 46vessels of mercy, which He 47prepared beforehand for glory,
- even us, whom He also 48called, 49not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
- As He says also in Hosea,
¶ “50I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’
AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’” - “51AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’
THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF 52THE LIVING GOD.” - ¶ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “53THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE 54LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS 55THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;
- 56FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, [o]THOROUGHLY AND [p]QUICKLY.”
- And just as Isaiah foretold,
¶ “57UNLESS 58THE LORD OF [q]SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A [r]POSTERITY,
59WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE [s]RESEMBLED GOMORRAH.” - ¶ 60What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even 61the righteousness which is [t]by faith;
- but Israel, 62pursuing a law of righteousness, did not 63arrive at that law.
- Why? Because they did not pursue it [u]by faith, but as though it were [v]by works. They stumbled over 64the stumbling stone,
- just as it is written,
¶ “65BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION 66A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE,
67AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM 68WILL NOT BE [w]DISAPPOINTED.”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Lit pray
- ^ I.e. the Messiah
- ^ Lit unto the ages
- ^ Lit seed
- ^ Lit in
- ^ Lit seed
- ^ Lit seed
- ^ Lit remain
- ^ Lit from
- ^ Lit from
- ^ Lit in
- ^ Lit for honor
- ^ Lit for dishonor
- ^ Lit But
- ^ Lit finishing it
- ^ Lit cutting it short
- ^ I.e. Hosts
- ^ Lit seed
- ^ Lit been made like
- ^ Lit out of
- ^ Lit out of
- ^ Lit out of
- ^ Lit put to shame
REFERENCES
- ^ 2Co 11:10; Ga 1:20; 1Ti 2:7
- ^ Ex 32:32
- ^ 1Co 12:3; 16:22; Ga 1:8f
- ^ Ro 1:3; 11:14; Eph 6:5
- ^ De 7:6; 14:1f; Ro 9:6
- ^ Ex 4:22; Ro 8:15
- ^ Ex 40:34; 1Ki 8:11; Eze 1:28; Heb 9:5
- ^ Ge 17:2; De 29:14; Lu 1:72; Ac 3:25; Eph 2:12
- ^ De 4:13f; Ps 147:19
- ^ Heb 9:1, 6
- ^ Ac 2:39; 13:32; Eph 2:12
- ^ Ac 3:13; Ro 11:28
- ^ Mt 1:1-16; Ro 1:3
- ^ Col 1:16-19
- ^ Jn 1:1
- ^ Ro 1:25
- ^ Nu 23:19
- ^ Jn 1:47; Ro 2:28f; Ga 6:16
- ^ Jn 8:33, 39; Ga 4:23
- ^ Ge 21:12; Heb 11:18
- ^ Ro 8:14
- ^ Ro 4:13, 16; Ga 3:29; 4:28; Heb 11:11
- ^ Ge 18:10
- ^ Ro 5:3
- ^ Ge 25:21
- ^ Ro 4:17; 8:28
- ^ Ge 25:23
- ^ Ml 1:2f
- ^ Ro 3:5
- ^ 2Ch 19:7; Ro 2:11
- ^ Lu 20:16
- ^ Ex 33:19
- ^ Ga 2:2
- ^ Eph 2:8
- ^ Ex 9:16
- ^ Ex 4:21; 7:3; 9:12; 10:20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 17; De 2:30; Jos 11:20; Jn 12:40; Ro 11:7, 25
- ^ Ro 11:19; 1Co 15:35; Jm 2:18
- ^ Ro 3:7
- ^ 2Ch 20:6; Jb 9:12; Da 4:35
- ^ Ro 2:1
- ^ Jb 33:13
- ^ Is 29:16; 45:9; 64:8; Je 18:6; Ro 9:22f; 2Ti 2:20
- ^ Ro 2:4
- ^ Pr 16:4; 1Pe 2:8
- ^ Ro 2:4; Eph 3:16
- ^ Ac 9:15
- ^ Ro 8:29f
- ^ Ro 8:28
- ^ Ro 3:29
- ^ Ho 2:23; 1Pe 2:10
- ^ Ho 1:10
- ^ Mt 16:16
- ^ Is 10:22
- ^ Ge 22:17; Ho 1:10
- ^ Ro 11:5
- ^ Is 10:23
- ^ Is 1:9
- ^ Jm 5:4
- ^ De 29:23; Is 13:19; Je 49:18; 50:40; Am 4:11
- ^ Ro 9:14
- ^ Ro 1:17; 3:21f; 10:6; Ga 2:16; 3:24; Pp 3:9; Heb 11:7
- ^ Is 51:1; Ro 9:30; 10:2f, 20; 11:7
- ^ Ga 5:4
- ^ Is 8:14; 1Pe 2:6, 8
- ^ Is 28:16
- ^ Is 8:14
- ^ Ro 10:11
- ^ Ro 5:5
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