9:1  I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
 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 [pertaineth] the adoption,
and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law,
and the service [of God], and the promises;
 9:5  Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the
flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever.
Amen.
 9:6  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For
they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:
 9:7  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they]
all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
 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.
 9:9  For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I
come, and Sarah shall have a son.
 9:10  And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived
by one, [even] by our father Isaac;
 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;)
 9:12  It was said unto 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? [Is there] unrighteousness with
God? God forbid.
 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 [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
 9:17  For the scripture saith unto 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 hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy],
and whom he will he hardeneth.
 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?
For who hath resisted his will?
 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?
 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto
dishonour?
 9:22  [What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make
his power known, endured with much longsuffering 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 afore prepared unto 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 Osee, I will call them my people,
which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not
beloved.
 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.
 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:
 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.
 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.
 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.
 9:31  But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
 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;
 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.