Romans 9-10

Romans 9

¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Ghost,

²that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

³For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

⁵whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

⁷neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

⁹For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁰And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac—

¹¹for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

¹²it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might shew in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.

¹⁸So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

²¹Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

²⁴even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, which was not beloved.

²⁶And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

²⁷And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

²⁸for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

²⁹And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

³³even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.

Romans 10

¹Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

²For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁴For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

⁵For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

⁶But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)

⁷or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)

⁸But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

⁹because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

¹⁰for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame.

¹²For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:

¹³for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

¹⁴How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁶But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

¹⁷So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

¹⁸But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁹But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

²⁰And Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me.

²¹But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.