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I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, |
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that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart. |
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For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, |
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who are Israelites; to whom belong 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 is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen. |
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Not however that the Word of God has failed, for not all those of Israel are Israel; |
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nor because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. But, "In Isaac shall your Seed be called." |
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That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed. |
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For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son." |
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And not only this, but when Rebekah also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac |
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(for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,) |
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it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." |
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As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." |
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What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! |
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For He said 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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So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy. |
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth." |
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Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens. |
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You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? |
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No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way? |
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Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to 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 before prepared to glory; |
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whom He also called, not only us, of Jews, but also of the nations? |
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As He also says in Hosea, "I will call those not My people, My people; and those not beloved, Beloved." |
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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God." |
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Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. |
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For He is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work on the earth." |
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And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah." |
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What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith. |
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But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness. |
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Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone; |
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as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame." |
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