1 I say the trueth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing mee witnesse in the holy Ghost,
2 That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that my selfe were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsemen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites: to whom perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the couenants, and the giuing of the Law, and the seruice of God, and the promises:
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is ouer all, God blessed for euer, Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel which are of Israel:
7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.
10 And not onely this, but when Rebecca also had conceiued by one, euen by our father Isaac,
11 (For the children being not yet borne, neither hauing done any good or euil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of workes, but of him that calleth.)
12 It was said vnto her, The elder shall serue the yonger.
13 As it is written, Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there vnrighteousnes with God? God forbid.
15 For hee saith to Moses, I will haue mercy on whom I wil haue mercie, and I will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the Scripture saith vnto Pharaoh, Euen for this same purpose haue I raised thee vp, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my Name might bee declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath hee mercie on whom hee will haue mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth.
Rom 9:1-18
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