1 | I say the
truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy
Ghost, |
2 | That I have
great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
3 | For I could wish that myself were accursed from
Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
4 | Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and
the service of God, and the promises; |
5 | Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. 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.
Gen 21:12
Gal 3:16
Heb 11:18
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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
Sarah shall have a son.
Gen 18:14
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10 |
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our
father Isaac; |
11 | (For
the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;) |
12 | It was said
unto her,
The elder shall serve the younger.
Gen 25:23
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13 | As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but
Esau have I
hated.
Mal 1:2,3
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14 | What shall we
say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. |
15 | For he saith to Moses,
I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion.
Exod 33:19
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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 unto Pharaoh,
Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up,
that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared
throughout all the earth.
Exod 9:16
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18 |
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
hardeneth. |
19 | Thou wilt
say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his
will? |
20 | Nay but, O man,
who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that
formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Isa 29:16
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21 | Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
22 | What if God, willing to shew his
wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels
of wrath fitted to destruction: |
23 | And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, |
24 | Even us, whom he hath called, not of
the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
25 | As he saith also in Osee,
I will call them my people,
which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Hos 2:23
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26 |
And it shall come to pass, that in
the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they
be called the children of the living God.
Hos 1:10
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27 | Esaias also crieth concerning Israel,
Though the number
of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be
saved:
Isa 10:22
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28 |
For he will
finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will
the Lord make upon the earth.
Isa 10:22,23
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29
| And as Esaias said before,
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a
seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Isa 1:9
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30 | What shall we say then? That the
Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. |
31 | But Israel, which followed after the
law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
32 | Wherefore? Because they sought
it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at
that stumblingstone; |
33 |
As it is written,
Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence:
and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Isa 28:16,
8:14
1 Pet 2:6
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