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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Ghost, |
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that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. |
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For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren-s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service {cf15i of God}, and the promises; |
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whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. |
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But {cf15i it is} not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: |
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neither, because they are Abraham-s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. |
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That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. |
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For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. |
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And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, {cf15i even} by our father Isaac-- |
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for {cf15i the children} being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, 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. |
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Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. |
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. |
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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. |
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So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy. |
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might shew in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth. |
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So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth. |
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? |
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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 didst thou make me thus? |
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Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a 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 vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: |
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory, |
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{cf15i even} us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? |
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As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, which was not beloved. |
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And it shall be, {cf15i that} in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God. |
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And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved: |
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for the Lord will execute {cf15i his} word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. |
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And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah. |
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: |
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but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at {cf15i that} law. |
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Wherefore? Because {cf15i they sought it} not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; |
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even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame. |
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