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For I could wish that myself were accurseda 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,b 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.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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What if* God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fittedd 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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As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
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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.
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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:
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For he will finish the work,e and cut it 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.
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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.
Herramientas de Estudio para Romans 9
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