Romans 9

1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy SpiritCross-references: Rom 1:9 · Rom 2:15 · Rom 8:16 · 2Cor 1:12 · 2Cor 1:23 · 2Cor 11:10 · +9 more

2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:35 · Ps 119:136 · Isa 66:10 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 13:17 · Lam 1:12 · +7 more

3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the fleshCross-references: Gen 29:14 · Ex 32:32 · Deut 21:23 · Josh 6:17 · 1Sam 14:24 · 1Sam 14:44 · +10 more

4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:2 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 17:10 · Gen 32:28 · Ex 4:22 · +49 more

5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Gen 49:10 · Deut 10:15 · Deut 27:15 · 1Ki 1:36 · 1Chr 16:36 · +36 more

6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Isa 55:11 · Matt 24:35 · John 1:47 · John 10:35 · Rom 2:28 · +6 more

7Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”Cross-references: Gen 21:12 · Luke 3:8 · Luke 16:24 · Luke 16:30 · John 8:33 · John 8:37 · +3 more

8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.Cross-references: Gen 31:15 · Ps 22:30 · Ps 87:6 · John 1:13 · Rom 4:11 · Rom 8:14 · +3 more

9For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”Cross-references: Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 18:14 · Gen 21:2 · Heb 11:11 · Heb 11:17

10Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.Cross-references: Gen 25:21 · Luke 16:26 · Rom 5:3 · Rom 5:11

11For 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 who calls,Cross-references: Ps 51:5 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 14:26 · Isa 23:9 · Isa 46:10 · Jer 51:29 · +16 more

12it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”Cross-references: Gen 25:22 · 2Sam 8:14 · 1Ki 22:47

13Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Cross-references: Gen 29:31 · Gen 29:33 · Deut 21:15 · Prov 13:24 · Mal 1:2 · Matt 10:37 · +2 more

14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Deut 32:4 · 2Chr 19:7 · Job 8:3 · Job 34:10 · Job 34:18 · +9 more

15For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”Cross-references: Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:6 · Isa 27:11 · Mic 7:18 · Rom 9:16 · Rom 9:18

16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.Cross-references: Gen 27:1 · Gen 27:9 · Ps 110:3 · Isa 65:1 · Matt 11:25 · Luke 10:21 · +11 more

17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 10:1 · Ex 14:17 · Ex 15:14 · Ex 18:10 · Josh 2:9 · +17 more

18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:13 · Deut 2:30 · Josh 11:20 · Isa 63:17 · Matt 13:14 · +7 more

19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · 2Chr 20:6 · Job 9:12 · Job 9:19 · Job 23:13 · Ps 76:10 · +11 more

20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”Cross-references: Job 16:3 · Job 33:13 · Job 36:23 · Job 38:2 · Job 40:2 · Job 40:5 · +13 more

21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?Cross-references: Prov 16:4 · Isa 64:8 · Jer 18:3 · Jer 22:28 · Hos 8:8 · Acts 9:15 · +4 more

22What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Ex 9:16 · Num 14:11 · Num 14:18 · Ps 50:21 · Ps 90:11 · +20 more

23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—Cross-references: 1Chr 29:18 · Luke 1:17 · Rom 2:4 · Rom 5:20 · Rom 8:29 · Eph 1:6 · +14 more

24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:27 · Acts 13:47 · Acts 15:14 · Acts 21:17 · Rom 3:29 · +13 more

25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”Cross-references: Ezek 16:8 · Hos 1:1 · Hos 2:23 · John 16:27 · Rom 1:7 · 1Pet 2:10

26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”Cross-references: Isa 43:6 · Hos 1:9 · Matt 16:16 · John 11:52 · Rom 8:16 · 2Cor 6:18 · +2 more

27Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Ezra 9:8 · Ezra 9:14 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 10:20 · +7 more

28for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”Cross-references: Ps 9:8 · Ps 65:5 · Isa 5:16 · Isa 10:23 · Isa 28:22 · Isa 30:12 · +4 more

29As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 13:19 · Jer 49:18 · +8 more

30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;Cross-references: Prov 15:9 · Prov 21:21 · Isa 51:1 · Isa 65:1 · Rom 1:17 · Rom 3:5 · +22 more

31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.Cross-references: Isa 51:1 · Rom 3:20 · Rom 4:14 · Rom 9:30 · Rom 10:2 · Rom 11:7 · +5 more

32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Cross-references: Matt 13:57 · Matt 19:16 · Luke 2:34 · Luke 7:23 · John 6:27 · Acts 16:30 · +6 more

33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”Cross-references: Ps 25:2 · Ps 25:20 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 28:16 · Isa 45:17 · +10 more