罗马书 Romans 9 << || >>

	9:1	I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
	9:2	That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
	9:3	For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
	9:4	Who are Israelites; to whom the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service , and the promises;
	9:5	Whose the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ , who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
	9:6	Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they not all Israel, who are from Israel?
	9:7	Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
	9:8	That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
	9:9	For this the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
	9:10	And not only ; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac,
	9:11	(For 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)
	9:12	It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
	9:13	As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
	9:14	What shall we say then? unrighteousness with God? By no means.
	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.
	9:16	So then, not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
	9:17	For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
	9:18	Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will , and whom he will he hardeneth.
	9:19	Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will?
	9:20	No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed , Why hast thou made me thus?
	9:21	Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
	9:22	if God, willing to show wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
	9:23	And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
	9:24	Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.
	9:25	As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not my people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved.
	9:26	And it shall come to pass, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.
	9:27	Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
	9:28	For he will finish the work, and cut short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
	9:29	And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.
	9:30	What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:
	9:31	But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
	9:32	Why? Because not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
	9:33	As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.