Romans 9 (NET)

Romans 9:1¹I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:2²I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:3³For I could wish that I myself were accursed—cut off from Christ—for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:4⁴who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:5⁵To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:6⁶It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:7⁷nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:8⁸This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:9⁹For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:10¹⁰Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:11¹¹even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:12¹²it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:13¹³just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:14¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:15¹⁵For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:16¹⁶So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:17¹⁷For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:18¹⁸So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:19¹⁹You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:20²⁰But who indeed are you—a mere human being —to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this? ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:21²¹Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:22²²But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:23²³And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:24²⁴even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:25²⁵As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:26²⁶“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:27²⁷And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:28²⁸for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:29²⁹Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:30³⁰What shall we say then?—that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:31³¹but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:32³²Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Romans 9:33³³just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame. ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions