Romans 9

Romans 9:1 I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!) because my conscience assures me in the Sacred Breath –

Romans 9:2 I have great regret and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9:3 Because I wish that I would be accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

Romans 9:4 who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, permanently applauded! Amen.

Romans 9:6 It is not like the word of God has failed. Because not all those who are descended from Israel are really Israel,

Romans 9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; instead, “through Isaac will your descendants be invited.”

Romans 9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; instead, the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

Romans 9:9 Because this is what the promise declared: “About this season next year I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Romans 9:10 Not only that but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–

Romans 9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s plan in election would stand,

Romans 9:12 not by achievements but by his invitation) – it was told her, “The older will serve the younger,”

Romans 9:13 just as it says in scripture: “Jacob I cared about, but Esau I hated.”

Romans 9:14 What will we say then? Is there injustice with God? That is not going to happen!

Romans 9:15 Because he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:16 Thus, it does not depend on what a human wants or tries but on God, who shows mercy.

Romans 9:17 Because the scripture says to Pharaoh: ” I have raised you for this exact purpose, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the land.”[1]

Romans 9:18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

Romans 9:19 You might say to me then, “Why does he still find fault, because who has ever resisted his will?”

Romans 9:20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is carved say to the carver, “Why have you made me like this?”

Romans 9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

Romans 9:22 Imagine God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, enduring with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction.

Romans 9:23 And imagine him wanting to make known the wealth of his glory upon the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

Romans 9:24 even us, whom he has invited, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9:25 As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was not cared about, ‘The one I care about.'”

Romans 9:26 “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.'”

Romans 9:27 And 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,

Romans 9:28 because the Lord will execute his sentence on the land entirely and quickly.”

Romans 9:29 Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

Romans 9:30 What will we say then? — that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness got it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

Romans 9:31 but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not get it.

Romans 9:32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by having faith but (as if it were possible) by achievements. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 9:33 just as it is written, “See, 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 puts faith in him will not be put to shame.”

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[1]γῆ = land. Romans 9:17, 18; 10:28.

Romans 9 links:

A conditionalist looks at αἰών
ACST 56- The Saved
embarrassing lessons in ministry
enduring with much patience
evangelism- perspective on potential
evangelism- perspective on success
God alone is Immortal
God is Different
having life, or awaiting wrath
his strange work
Maranatha Daily Devotional – July 22, 2015
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, December 11, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, December 13, 2021
my countrymen – cut off from Christ!
one way
Paul’s ‘sky and land’ references
Reading Romans Again – as a conditionalist
safe sinning
set apart for destruction
Solving the Problem of Hell
sovereign mercy
the other vessels
the stumbling stone
tripping over words

The ROMANS shelf in Jeff’s library