Romans 9
God's Election of
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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that I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart.
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For I could wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh:
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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;
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whose are the fathers, and of whom
as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God
blessed for ever. Amen.
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Not as though the word of God hath
taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of
Israel:
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neither, because they are the seed of
Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed
be called. Gen. 21.12
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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.
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For this is the word of promise,
At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. Gen.
18.10
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And not only this; but when
Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father
Isaac,
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(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;)
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it was said unto her, The elder shall
serve the younger. Gen. 25.23
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As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but
Esau have I hated. Mal. 1.2, 3
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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For he saith to Moses,
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I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, |
and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion. Ex.
33.19 |
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So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth
mercy.
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For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh,
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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. Ex.
9.16 |
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he
yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
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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? Is. 29.16 ; 45.9
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Hath not the potter power over the clay,
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto
dishonor?
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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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and that he might make known the riches
of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared
unto glory,
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even us, whom he hath called, not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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As he saith also in Hose'a,
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I will call them my people, |
which were not my people; |
and her beloved, |
which was not beloved. Hos.
2.23 |
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And it shall come to pass,
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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. Hos.
1.10 |
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Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel,
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Though the number of the children of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, |
a remnant shall be
saved: |
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for he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness:
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because a short work will the Lord make upon the
earth. Is.
10.22, 23 |
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And as Isaiah said before,
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Except the Lord of Sab'a-oth had left us a
seed, |
we had been as Sodom, |
and been made like unto Gomor'rah. Is.
1.9 |
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Righteousness Based on
Faith |
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What shall we say then? That the
Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
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But Israel, which followed after the law
of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness.
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Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumblingstone;
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as it is written,
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Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone |
and rock of offense: |
and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Is.
28.16 |
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