Romans 9:6-29
God’s Sovereign Choice

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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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.

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9 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

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10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;

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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;)

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12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

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13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth.

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19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

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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?

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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?

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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:

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23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

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24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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