Romans 9-10

Romans 9

¹Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

²that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

³for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

⁴who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

⁵whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

⁶And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;

⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but -- ‘in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

⁸that is, the children of the flesh -- these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

⁹for the word of promise [is] this; ‘According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

¹⁰And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

¹¹(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

¹²‘The greater shall serve the less;'

¹³according as it hath been written, ‘Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

¹⁴What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness [is] with God? let it not be!

¹⁵for to Moses He saith, ‘I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

¹⁶so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

¹⁷for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- ‘For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

¹⁸so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, to me, ‘Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

²⁰nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus?

²¹hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

²²And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

²³and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

²⁴not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

²⁵as also in Hosea He saith, ‘I will call what [is] not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,

²⁶and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

²⁷And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

²⁸for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

²⁹and according as Isaiah saith before, ‘Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

³⁰What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith,

³¹and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

³²wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

³³according as it hath been written, ‘Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

Romans 10

¹Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

²for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

³for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

⁴For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

⁵for Moses doth describe the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, ‘The man who did them shall live in them,'

⁶and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: ‘Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

⁷or, ‘Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.

⁸But what doth it say? ‘Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

⁹that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

¹⁰for with the heart doth [one] believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

¹¹for the Writing saith, ‘Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'

¹²for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him,

¹³for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

¹⁴How then shall they call upon [him] in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe [on him] of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

¹⁵and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, ‘How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

¹⁶But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, ‘Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

¹⁷so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

¹⁸but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- ‘to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'

¹⁹But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, ‘I will provoke you to jealousy by [that which is] not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

²⁰and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, ‘I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'

²¹and unto Israel He saith, ‘All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'