Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 9

121 catchwords1161 parallels

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Romans 9 . 1 , Paul is sorry for the Jews; Romans 9 . 7 , All of Abraham not of the promise; Romans 9 . 18 , God’s sovereignty; Romans 9 . 25 , The calling of the Gentiles and rejecting of the Jews , foretold; Romans 9 . 32 , The cause of the Jews’ stumbling.

Romans 9:1

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 9:1 · BSB

I say9 parallels

my conscience5 parallels

Reciprocal22 parallels

Romans 9:2

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9:2 · BSB

the whole verse14 parallels

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Romans 9:3

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,

Romans 9:3 · BSB

I could1 parallel

were8 parallels

my kinsmen5 parallels

Reciprocal28 parallels

accursed or , separated

Romans 9:4

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.

Romans 9:4 · BSB

are Israelites8 parallels

the adoption5 parallels

and the glory8 parallels

covenants16 parallels

or , testaments

the giving7 parallels

the service5 parallels

promises10 parallels

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Romans 9:5

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

Romans 9:5 · BSB

are the fathers2 parallels

of whom9 parallels

who is16 parallels

blessed4 parallels

Amen13 parallels

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Romans 9:6

It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Romans 9:6 · BSB

as though10 parallels

they are not5 parallels

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Romans 9:7

Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

Romans 9:7 · BSB

because6 parallels

In Isaac2 parallels

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Romans 9:8

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.

Romans 9:8 · BSB

They which2 parallels

are counted8 parallels

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Romans 9:9

For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Romans 9:9 · BSB

At this time4 parallels

Sarah3 parallels

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Romans 9:10

Not only that, but Rebecca's children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

Romans 9:10 · BSB

not only3 parallels

but when1 parallel

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Romans 9:11

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand,

Romans 9:11 · BSB

the children3 parallels

that the11 parallels

according6 parallels

not of works3 parallels

but of6 parallels

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Romans 9:12

not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, "The older will serve the younger."

Romans 9:12 · BSB

The elder4 parallels

or , The greater

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younger or , lesser

Romans 9:13

So it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Romans 9:13 · BSB

Jacob2 parallels

hated7 parallels

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Romans 9:14

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

Romans 9:14 · BSB

shall2 parallels

Is there unrighteousness17 parallels

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Romans 9:15

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:15 · BSB

I will have8 parallels

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Romans 9:16

So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 9:16 · BSB

the whole verse21 parallels

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Romans 9:17

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.”

Romans 9:17 · BSB

For4 parallels

Even1 parallel

I raised10 parallels

that16 parallels

that my1 parallel

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Romans 9:18

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden

Romans 9:18 · BSB

hath5 parallels

will he12 parallels

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Romans 9:19

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

Romans 9:19 · BSB

Thou4 parallels

Why doth17 parallels

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Romans 9:20

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?”

Romans 9:20 · BSB

O man4 parallels

who art9 parallels

repliest4 parallels

or , answerest again

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Romans 9:21

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?

Romans 9:21 · BSB

the potter5 parallels

one vessel7 parallels

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Romans 9:22

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?

Romans 9:22 · BSB

willing9 parallels

endured15 parallels

the vessels3 parallels

The Apostle , by employing the appellation of the vessels of wrath , carries on the similitude of the potter , by which he had illustrated the sovereignty of God

fitted5 parallels

or , made up

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Romans 9:23

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—

Romans 9:23 · BSB

might12 parallels

he had afore10 parallels

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Romans 9:24

including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9:24 · BSB

whom5 parallels

not of the Jews17 parallels

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Romans 9:25

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,”

Romans 9:25 · BSB

in Osee2 parallels

I will call2 parallels

beloved3 parallels

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Romans 9:26

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.’”

Romans 9:26 · BSB

And it2 parallels

there shall6 parallels

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Romans 9:27

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

Romans 9:27 · BSB

Esaias1 parallel

though1 parallel

a remnant11 parallels

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Romans 9:28

For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”

Romans 9:28 · BSB

and cut5 parallels

in righteousness5 parallels

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work or , account

Romans 9:29

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.”

Romans 9:29 · BSB

Except3 parallels

Sabaoth1 parallel

we had been8 parallels

Sodoma2 parallels

Gomorrah

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Romans 9:30

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 9:30 · BSB

shall2 parallels

the Gentiles9 parallels

followed5 parallels

even the righteousness12 parallels

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Romans 9:31

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Romans 9:31 · BSB

followed4 parallels

hath10 parallels

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Romans 9:32

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 9:32 · BSB

Because6 parallels

they stumbled5 parallels

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Romans 9:33

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.”

Romans 9:33 · BSB

Behold8 parallels

and whosoever12 parallels

ashamed1 parallel

or , confounded

Reciprocal25 parallels

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web28 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Romans 9:10-13 → Genesis 25:23, Romans 9:13 → Malachi 1:2-3, Romans 9:15 → Exodus 33:19, Romans 9:17 → Exodus 9:16, Romans 9:25-26 → Hosea 2:23, Romans 9:26 → Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:27-29 → Isaiah 10:22, Romans 9:29 → Isaiah 1:9, Romans 9:33 → Isaiah 28:16, Romans 9:33 → Isaiah 8:14, Romans 9:6-9 → Genesis 21:12, Romans 9:9 → Genesis 18:10
Allusions Romans 9:20-21 → Isaiah 29:16
Trajectories
Church as Israel (New Covenant People), Covenant Succession (Inheritance and Election), Esau (The Profane Person), Isaac (Child of Promise), Jacob (Transformed Supplanter), Marriage (Christ and His Bride), Plagues of Egypt (Judgment on False Gods), Remnant (Faithful Few Preserved), Seed Promise (Redemption Through Offspring), Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry), Stone and Cornerstone (Rejected Foundation), Wisdom and Foolishness of the Cross
Chiasms
Shaped Romans 09:1–29, Romans 09:25–29, Romans 09:30–10:21
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