Romans 9

1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,YLT — Romans 9:1

2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart —YLT — Romans 9:2

3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ — for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,YLT — Romans 9:3

4 who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,YLT — Romans 9:4

5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.YLT — Romans 9:5

6 And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;YLT — Romans 9:6

7 nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but — ‘in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;’YLT — Romans 9:7

8 that is, the children of the flesh — these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;YLT — Romans 9:8

9 for the word of promise [is] this; ‘According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.’YLT — Romans 9:9

10 And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one — Isaac our father —YLT — Romans 9:10

11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her —YLT — Romans 9:11

12 ’The greater shall serve the less;’YLT — Romans 9:12

13 according as it hath been written, ‘Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.’YLT — Romans 9:13

14 What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness [is] with God? let it not be!YLT — Romans 9:14

15 for to Moses He saith, ‘I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;’YLT — Romans 9:15

16 so, then — not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:YLT — Romans 9:16

17 for the Writing saith to Pharaoh — ‘For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;’YLT — Romans 9:17

18 so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.YLT — Romans 9:18

19 Thou wilt say, then, to me, ‘Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?’YLT — Romans 9:19

20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus?YLT — Romans 9:20

21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?YLT — Romans 9:21

22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,YLT — Romans 9:22

23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call — us —YLT — Romans 9:23

24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,YLT — Romans 9:24

25 as also in Hosea He saith, ‘I will call what [is] not My people — My people; and her not beloved — Beloved,YLT — Romans 9:25

26 and it shall be — in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.’YLT — Romans 9:26

27 And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;YLT — Romans 9:27

28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.YLT — Romans 9:28

29 and according as Isaiah saith before, ‘Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.’YLT — Romans 9:29

30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith,YLT — Romans 9:30

31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;YLT — Romans 9:31

32 wherefore? because — not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,YLT — Romans 9:32

33 according as it hath been written, ‘Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.’YLT — Romans 9:33