Rom. 9:1‑11:36• 1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
2that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart,
3for I could wish, I myself, to be a curse from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh,
4which are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the law-giving and the service and the promises;
5whose are the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ as far as according to flesh, who is over all God blessed forever. Amen.
6Not however that the word of God hath failed; for not all those that are of Israel [are] Israel;
7nor because they are Abraham's seed, [are] they all children, but “In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.”
8That is, not the children of the flesh, these [are] children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
9for this word is of promise, “According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
10And not only [so], but also Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
11for [the children] being not yet born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might remain, not of works but of him that calleth,
12it was said to her, “The greater shall serve the lesser,”
13according as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be.
15For to Moses he saith, “I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy and will pity whomsoever I pity.”
16So then [it is] not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that hath mercy.
17For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, “For this very thing I raised thee up, so that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be declared in all the earth.”
18So then on whom he willeth he hath mercy and whom he willeth he hardeneth.
19Thou wilt say to me then, Why then doth he yet find fault? for his purpose who resisteth?
20Nay rather, O man, who art thou that answerest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded, Why madest thou me thus?
21Or hath the potter no authority over the clay out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour and another to dishonour?
22And if God, willing to display his wrath and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
23and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory—
24us whom he also called not only out of Jews, but also out of Gentiles,
25as also in Hosea he saith, “I will call that which [is] not-my-people, my people, and the not-beloved, Beloved;”
26and “It shall be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of [the] living God.”
27But Esaias crieth concerning Israel, “Were the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved,
28for he is completing and cutting short the matter in righteousness, because a matter cut short will [the] Lord make on the earth.”
29And according as Esaias said before, “Unless [the] Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom and been made like as Gomorrha.”
30What then shall we say? That Gentiles which followed not after righteousness obtained righteousness, even [the] righteousness that is by faith;
31but Israel following after a law of righteousness attained not unto a law of righteousness.
32Why? Because not by faith but as by works [of law], for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
33even as it is written, “Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”
1Brethren, the delight of my heart and my supplication to God, on their behalf [is] for salvation.
2For I bear witness to them that they have zeal for God but not according to knowledge.
3For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
4For Christ [is the] end of law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.
5For Moses describeth the righteousness that [is] by the law, that the man who hath done those things shall live by them.
6But the righteousness that [is] by faith thus speaketh, “Say not in thine heart, 'Who shall go up into heaven?' that is, to bring Christ down;”
7or, “'Who shall go down into the deep?” that is, to bring up Christ from [the] dead:”
8but what saith it? “The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:
9that, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth [the] Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God raised him out of [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart belief is unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is unto salvation.
11For the scripture saith, “Every one that believeth on him shall not be ashamed;”
12For there is no difference of Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich toward all that call upon him.
13For everyone whosoever shall call on the name of [the] Lord shall be saved.
14How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? and how believe in him of whom they heard not? and how hear without a preacher?
15and how preach unless they have been sent? According as it is written, “How beautiful the feet of those that announce glad tidings of peace, of those that announce glad tidings of good things!”
16But not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias says, “Lord, who believed our report?”
17Therefore faith [is] by report, but the report through God's word.
18But I say, Have they not heard? Nay, rather “Unto all the earth went out their voice, and unto the ends of the habitable earth their words.”
19But I say, Did Israel not know? First, Moses saith “I will make you jealous through [those] not a nation, through a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”
20But Esaias is very bold and saith, “I was found by those not seeking me, I became manifested to those not inquiring for me;”
21but with regard to Israel he saith, “All the day long I spread out my hands toward a people disobedient and gainsaying.”
1I say then, Did God thrust away his people? Let it not be; for I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.
2God had not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. What, know ye not what the scripture saith in Elias's [case]; how he pleadeth with God against Israel?
3“Lord, thy prophets they slew, thy altars they digged down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life.”
4But what saith the divine answer to him? “I left for myself seven thousand men which never bowed knee to Baal.”
5So then in the present time also there hath been a remnant according to election of grace;
6and if by grace, no longer by works, since [otherwise] grace becometh no longer grace.
7What then? That which Israel seeketh after, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained [it]; but the rest were hardened,
8even as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes so as not to see, and ears so as not to hear, until this day.”
9And David saith, “Let their table be for a snare and for a trap and for a stumblingblock and for a recompense to them:
10let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back ever bend thou down.”
11I say then, Did they stumble that they should fall? Let it not be; but by their slip [there is] salvation to the Gentiles, in order to make them jealous.
12But if their slip [be the] world's riches and their loss [the] Gentiles' riches, how much more their fullness?
13For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
14if by any means I may stir to jealousy my flesh and save some of them.
15For if the rejection of them [be the] world's reconciliation, what their reception but life out of [the] dead?
16But if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also; and if holy the root, the branches also.
17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou being a wild olive wert grafted in among them and becamest a fellow-partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree,
18boast not against the branches; but if thou boastest against [them], thou bearest not the root but the root thee.
19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
20Right: through unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest through faith. Be not highminded, but fear;
21for if God spared not the natural branches, [fear] lest somehow thee he will not even spare.
22Behold then God's goodness and severity: upon those that fell severity, and upon thee God's goodness, if thou abide in the goodness; since [otherwise] thou also shalt be cut off.
23And they too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.
24For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature wert grafted into a good olive tree, how much more shall these that [are] natural be grafted into their own olive tree?
25For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, that ye be not wise in your own eyes, that hardness hath happened in part to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in;
26and so all Israel shall be saved, even as it is written, “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob.
27And this [is] for them the covenant on my part, when I shall have taken away their sins.”
28As to the gospel, [they are] enemies on your account, but as to the election beloved on account of the fathers;
29for indefeasible are [the] gifts and the calling of God.
30For as ye once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience,
31so also these have now disobeyed your mercy, that they also may have mercy shown to themselves.
32For God hath shut all together into disobedience that to all he might show mercy.
33O depth of God's riches and wisdom and knowledge! how unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways!
34For who knew [the] Lord's mind? or who became his counsellor!
35or who first gave him and it shall be repaid him?
36For of him and through him and unto him [are] all things: to him [be] the glory forever. Amen. (Rom. 9:1‑11:36)
Rom. 15:9‑18• 9and that the Gentiles should glorify God for mercy, even as it is written, “On this account I will confess to thee among [the] Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing.”
10And again he saith, “Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people;”
11and, again, “Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and give him praise, all ye people.”
12And again Esaias saith, “There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that standeth up to rule Gentiles: on him shall Gentiles hope.”
13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope by the power of [the] Holy Spirit.
14But I am persuaded, my brethren, even I myself about you, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in measure, as reminding you on account of the grace that was given to me by God,
16in order to my being a minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, as a sacred rite ministering the gospel of God that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.
17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things relative to God.
18For I will not dare to speak of anything of what Christ has wrought not by me for [the] obedience of [the] Gentiles by word and deed, (Rom. 15:9‑18)