9:1I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie: my conscience bearing testimony for me in the Holy Spirit: that there is great sadness for me, and continual pain for my heart. 9:3For I myself was wishing to be anathema from Christ for my brothers, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, whose is the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises: whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all things God blessed for ages. 9:5Amen. 9:6But not that the word of God has fallen away.
9:6For not all who are from Israel, these are Israelites: nor are those who are the seed of Abraham all sons: but "In Isaac shall seed be called for you": that is, not those who are sons of the flesh, these are sons of God: but those who are sons of the promise are reckoned as the seed. 9:9For this is the word of promise: "According to this time I will come: and there will be a son for Sarah." 9:10And not only she: but Rebecca too, having children from one act of lying together, with Isaac our father. 9:11For when they had not yet been born, or done anything good, or bad (so that the purpose of God according to election might remain), not from works, but from the one calling, it was said to her that the greater will serve the lesser, just as it has been written: "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have held in hatred."
9:14What then shall we say? 9:14Is there iniquity with God? 9:14Far from it. 9:15For he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy: and I will show mercy to whom I will have mercy." 9:16Therefore it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God having mercy. 9:17For Scripture says to Pharaoh: "For to this very end I have raised you up, so that I may show in you my power: and that my name may be announced in all the earth." 9:18Therefore on whom he wishes he has mercy, and whom he wishes he hardens. 9:19You say therefore to me: "Why does he still complain?
9:19For who resists his will?" 9:20O man, who are you, to answer back to God? 9:20Does the thing formed say to him who formed it: "Why have you made me thus?" 9:21Or does the potter not have power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel indeed for honour, but another for disgrace? 9:22But what if God, wishing to show his anger, and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of anger, fitted for destruction, so that he might show the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared for glory. 9:24Whom he also called, us, not only from the Jews, but also among the nations, just as he says in Hosea: "I will call not-my-people, my people: and not-loved, loved: and not-having-obtained-mercy, having obtained mercy.
9:26And it will be: in the place, where it was said to them: 'Not my people are you': there they will be called sons of the living God." 9:27But Isaiah cries out for Israel: "If the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be made safe. 9:28For he is finishing the word and cutting it short in equity: because a shortened word will the Lord make upon the earth": and just as Isaiah foretold: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah." 9:30What then shall we say?
9:30That the nations, which were not pursuing justice, have laid hold of justice: but the justice which is from faith. 9:31But Israel, by pursuing the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice. 9:32Why? 9:32Because they pursued it not from faith, but as if from works: for they stumbled on the stone of stumbling, just as it has been written: "Look, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."