1 I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit. | C | TOSK |
2 I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. | C | TOSK |
3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, | C | TOSK |
4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. | C | TOSK |
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen. | C | TOSK |
6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ |
7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.” | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ |
8 So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring. | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ |
9 For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” | IP¹ | IP² | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ |
10 Not only that, but Rebecca's children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
11 Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand, | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
12 not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, "The older will serve the younger." | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
13 So it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." | IP¹ | IP² | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not! | C | TOSK |
15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” | IP | C | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² |
16 So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. | C | TOSK |
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” | IP | C | TOSK | TT |
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden | C | TOSK |
19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” | C | TOSK |
20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” | IP | C | TOSK | TT |
21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? | IP | C | TOSK | TT |
22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? | C | TOSK |
23 What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— | C | TOSK |
24 including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? | C | TOSK |
25 As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” | IP | C¹ | C² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
26 and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” | IP¹ | IP² | C¹ | C² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ | TT⁴ | TT⁵ |
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved. | IP | C¹ | C² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² |
28 For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.” | IP | C¹ | C² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² |
29 It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.” | IP¹ | IP² | C¹ | C² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² |
30 What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; | C | TOSK |
31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. | TOSK |
32 Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, | TOSK |
33 as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” | IP¹ | IP² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT² | TT³ |