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Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Romans—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ I am telling the truth1 in Christ; I am not lying,2 since my conscience bears witness with me in holy spirit,
  2. that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart.3
  3. For I could wish that I myself were separated as the cursed one[a] from the Christ in behalf of my brothers,4 my relatives according to the flesh,5
  4. who, as such, are Israelites,6 to whom belong the adoption as sons7 and the glory8 and the covenants9 and the giving of the Law10 and the sacred service[b]11 and the promises;12
  5. to whom the forefathers13 belong and from whom the Christ [sprang] according to the flesh:14 God,15 who is over all,[c] [be] blessed forever. Amen.
  6. ¶ However, it is not as though the word of God had failed.16 For not all who [spring] from Israel are really “Israel.”17
  7. Neither because they are Abraham’s seed are they all children,18 but: “What will be called ‘your seed’ will be through Isaac.”19
  8. That is, the children in the flesh20 are not really the children of God,21 but the children by the promise22 are counted as the seed.
  9. For the word of promise was as follows: “At this time I will come and Sarah will have a son.”23
  10. Yet not that case alone, but also when Re·bekʹah conceived twins24 from the one [man], Isaac our forefather:
  11. for when they had not yet been born nor had practiced anything good or vile,25 in order that the purpose of God respecting the choosing might continue dependent, not upon works, but upon the One who calls,26
  12. it was said to her: “The older will be the slave of the younger.”27
  13. Just as it is written: “I loved Jacob, but Eʹsau I hated.”28
  14. ¶ What shall we say, then? Is there injustice with God?29 Never may that become so!
  15. For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy upon whomever I do have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I do show compassion.”30
  16. So, then, it depends, not upon the one wishing nor upon the one running, but upon God,31 who has mercy.32
  17. For the Scripture says to Pharʹaoh: “For this very cause I have let you remain,[d] that in connection with you I may show my power, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.”33
  18. So, then, upon whom he wishes he has mercy,34 but whom he wishes he lets become obstinate.35
  19. ¶ You will therefore say to me: “Why does he yet find fault? For who has withstood his express will?”36
  20. O man,37 who, then, really are you to be answering back to God?38 Shall the thing molded say to him that molded it, “Why did you make me this way?”39
  21. What? Does not the potter40 have authority over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for an honorable use, another for a dishonorable use?41
  22. If, now, God, although having the will to demonstrate his wrath and to make his power known, tolerated with much long-suffering vessels of wrath made fit for destruction,42
  23. in order that he might make known the riches43 of his glory upon vessels44 of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,45
  24. namely, us, whom he called not only from among Jews but also from among nations,46 [what of it]?
  25. It is as he says also in Ho·seʹa: “Those not my people47 I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved ‘beloved’;48
  26. and in the place where it was said to them, ‘YOU are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”49
  27. ¶ Moreover, Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Although the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea,50 it is the remnant that will be saved.51
  28. For Jehovah[e] will make an accounting on the earth, concluding it and cutting it short.”[f]52
  29. Also, just as Isaiah had said aforetime: “Unless Jehovah[g] of armies53 had left a seed to us, we should have become just like Sodʹom, and we should have been made just like Go·morʹrah.”54
  30. ¶ What shall we say, then? That people of the nations, although not pursuing righteousness, caught up with righteousness,55 the righteousness that results from faith;56
  31. but Israel, although pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.57
  32. For what reason? Because he pursued it, not by faith, but as by works.58 They stumbled on the “stone of stumbling”;59
  33. as it is written: “Look! I am laying in Zion a stone60 of stumbling and a rock-mass of offense,61 but he that rests his faith on it[h] will not come to disappointment.”[i]62

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit., “anathema.” Gr. and Lat., a·naʹthe·ma.
  2. ^ “Sacred service.” Gr., la·treiʹa; J17(Heb.), weha·ʽavoh·dhahʹ, “and the service (worship).” See Ex 12:25 ftn.
  3. ^ For a discussion of “God, who is over all” see App 6D.
  4. ^ “I have let you remain,” J17,18,22; אAB, “I have raised you up”; Ex 9:16 in LXX, which Paul here quotes, “you have been preserved.”
  5. ^ See App 1D.
  6. ^ Or, “executing it speedily.”
  7. ^ See App 1D.
  8. ^ Or, “him.”
  9. ^ Or, “not be ashamed.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ti 2:7
  2. ^ Ga 1:20
  3. ^ Ro 10:1
  4. ^ Ex 32:32
  5. ^ Ro 16:7, 21
  6. ^ 2Co 11:22; Pp 3:5
  7. ^ Ex 4:22
  8. ^ De 26:19
  9. ^ Ac 3:25; 7:8
  10. ^ Ex 24:12
  11. ^ Ac 26:7; Heb 9:1
  12. ^ Ac 13:32; Ro 4:13
  13. ^ De 10:15
  14. ^ Mt 1:17
  15. ^ Ps 103:19
  16. ^ Nu 23:19
  17. ^ Mt 23:38; Ro 2:28; Re 2:9
  18. ^ Jn 8:39; Ga 3:29
  19. ^ Ge 21:12; Heb 11:18
  20. ^ Is 57:4; Ga 4:23
  21. ^ Jn 1:13
  22. ^ Is 54:1; Ga 4:28
  23. ^ Ge 18:14
  24. ^ Ge 25:24
  25. ^ Ps 139:16
  26. ^ Ro 8:28; Heb 5:4
  27. ^ Ge 25:23
  28. ^ Ml 1:3; Heb 12:16
  29. ^ De 32:4; 2Ch 19:6; Jb 34:10
  30. ^ Ex 33:19
  31. ^ Ps 115:3
  32. ^ De 4:31; Ti 3:5
  33. ^ Ex 9:16
  34. ^ Ex 20:6
  35. ^ Ex 10:1; 14:4
  36. ^ 2Ch 20:6; Jb 23:13; Da 4:35
  37. ^ Ro 2:1
  38. ^ Jb 40:2
  39. ^ Is 29:16; 45:9
  40. ^ Is 64:8; Je 18:6
  41. ^ 2Ti 2:20
  42. ^ 1Th 5:9
  43. ^ Col 1:27
  44. ^ Ac 9:15
  45. ^ Pp 4:19
  46. ^ Ro 11:13; Eph 3:6
  47. ^ Eph 2:12
  48. ^ Ho 2:23; Mt 21:43; 1Pe 2:10
  49. ^ Ho 1:10; Ga 3:26
  50. ^ Ge 22:17; 1Ki 4:20
  51. ^ Is 10:22; Ro 11:5
  52. ^ Is 10:23
  53. ^ Ps 103:21
  54. ^ Is 1:9; Je 50:40
  55. ^ Ro 10:20
  56. ^ Ro 1:17; 4:11; Pp 3:9
  57. ^ Ga 2:21; 5:4
  58. ^ Ga 2:16
  59. ^ Lu 20:18; 1Co 1:23
  60. ^ Ps 118:22; Mt 21:42; 1Pe 2:6
  61. ^ Is 8:14
  62. ^ Is 28:16; 49:23

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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