Romans 9
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | CNT |
|---|---|
| 1 | I speak the truth among the Anointed, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, |
| 2 | that grief for me is great, and distress incessant in my heart, |
| 3 | for I have prayed that I myself would be accursed from the Anointed for the brethren, my kinsmen in regards to the flesh; |
| 4 | those who are Israelites, whose is the position of sons, and the honor, and the covenants, and the legislation, and the service, and the promises; |
| 5 | whose are the fathers; and of whom are the Anointed in regards to the flesh, being over all blessed of Yahweh for the ages. Truly. |
| 6 | Not, however, that the word of Yahweh has failed; since not all those who are from Israel are those of Israel: |
| 7 | nor because they are offspring of Abraham all children: but, "In Isaac will your offspring be called." |
| 8 | That is to say, the children of the flesh, these are not children of Yahweh, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. |
| 9 | Indeed this word of promise: "At the appointed time I will come, and there will be a son for Sarah." |
| 10 | And not only, but Rebekka also had conceived from one, by Isaak our father. |
| 11 | Then not yet having been born, nor having performed any good or evil, (that the purpose of Yahweh concerning the chosen endures, not from rituals, but from the calling,) |
| 12 | to her it was said, "the elder will serve the younger:" |
| 13 | just as it is written, "Jakob I love, and Esau I hated." |
| 14 | Now what may we say? Injustice is with Yahweh? Certainly not! |
| 15 | Indeed to Moses He says, "I will show mercy to whomever I show mercy, and I will feel pity for whomever I feel pity." |
| 16 | So then, it is not of he that wishes, nor of he that strives, but of he Yahweh shows mercy upon. |
| 17 | For the writings say to Pharaoh, "That for this reason I raised you, so that I would demonstrate in you My power, and so that My name is declared in all the land." |
| 18 | So then, He shows mercy to whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes. |
| 19 | Therefore you will say to me: yet why does He find fault? Indeed who has resisted His purpose? |
| 20 | But rather, O man, who are you to be arguing against Yahweh? Will the figure say to its fabricator: why did you make me in this manner? |
| 21 | Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from out of the same lump one vessel for honor, and one for dishonor? |
| 22 | Moreover, if Yahweh wishes to display wrath, and to make known His power, with much patience having bore vessels of wrath furnished for destruction; |
| 23 | and so that He will make known the wealth of His honor upon vessels of mercy, which He previously prepared for honor; |
| 24 | whom also He has called, us not only from among the Judaeans, but also from out of the Nations? |
| 25 | And as He says in Hosea, "I will call that which is not My people, My people; and that which is not beloved, beloved." |
| 26 | "And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, you are not My people, there they shall be called sons of Yahweh who is living." |
| 27 | Moreover Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be preserved:" |
| 28 | "Indeed Yahweh will make a complete and quickly executed account upon the earth." |
| 29 | And just as Isaiah said beforehand, "Unless Yahweh of armies had left to us offspring, like Sodom we would have become, and as Gomorrah we would have been compared." |
| 30 | Now what may we say? That the Nations not pursuing justice, have happened upon justice; but that justice is from of faith. |
| 31 | But Israel pursuing a law of justice, with law did not attain. |
| 32 | Why? Because it was not from faith, but from rituals. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone. |
| 33 | Just as it is written, "Behold, I place in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense: and he who is trusting of Him shall not be ashamed." |