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Romans 9 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:1 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:2 - That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:3 - For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:4 - Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:5 - Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
(Gen 25:19–23 )
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:6 - Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:7 - Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:8 - That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:9 - For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:10 - And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:11 - (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:12 - It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:13 - As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:14 - What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:15 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:16 - So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:17 - For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:18 - Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:19 - Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:20 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:22 - What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:23 - And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:24 - Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:25 - As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:26 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:27 - Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:28 - For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:29 - And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:30 - What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:31 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:32 - Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:33 - As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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