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| 9 | Romans |
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, | God's Election of Israel Ro.9.1-18 |
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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 the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service , and the promises; | |
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Whose the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ , 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 not all Israel, which are of Israel: | |
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Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. | - Through Isaac shall your descendants be named Ro.9.7 - Gn.21.12 |
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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. | |
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For this the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. | - About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son Ro.9.9 - Gn.18.10-14 |
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And not only ; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac; | |
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(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;) | |
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It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. | - The elder will serve the younger Ro.9.12 - Gn.25.23 |
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As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. | - Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated Ro.9.13 - Mal.1.2-3 |
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What shall we say then? unrighteousness with God? God forbid. | |
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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. | - I will have mercy on whom I have mercy Ro.9.15 - Ex.33.19 |
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So then not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. | |
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. | - I have raised you up for the very purpose Ro.9.17 - Ex.9.16 |
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will , 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? | God's Wrath and Mercy Ro.9.19-29 |
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Nay 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? | - Will what is molded say to its molder Ro.9.20 - Is.29.16, Is.45.9 |
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Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? | - Has the potter no right over the clay Ro.9.21 - Jr.18.6 |
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if God, willing to shew wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering 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 Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. | - Those who were not my people Ro.9.25 - Hs.2.23 |
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And it shall come to pass, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. | - You are not my people Ro.9.26 - Hs.1.10 |
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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: | - only a remnant of them will be saved Ro.9.27-28 - Is.10.22-23 |
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For he will finish the work, and cut short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. | |
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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. | - If the Lord of hosts had not left us children Ro.9.29 - Is.1.9 |
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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. | Israel and the Gospel Ro.9.30-10.4 |
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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 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, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. | - Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone Ro.9.33 - Is.28.16 |
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