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Romans 9:18-29
New American Standard Bible
Romans 9:18-29
New American Standard Bible
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He (A)hardens whom He desires.
19 (B)You will say to me then, “(C)Why does He still find fault? For (D)who has resisted His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, [a](E)you foolish person, who (F)answers back to God? (G)The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object [b]for honorable use, and another [c]for common use? 22 [d]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great (H)patience objects of wrath (I)prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known (J)the riches of His glory upon (K)objects of mercy, which He (L)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 namely us, whom He also (M)called, (N)not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, 25 as He also says in Hosea:
“(O)I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
26 “(P)And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of (Q)the living God.”
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “(R)Though the number of the sons of Israel may be (S)like the sand of the sea, only (T)the remnant will be saved; 28 (U)for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, [e]thoroughly and [f]quickly.” 29 And just as Isaiah foretold:
“(V)If (W)the Lord [g]of armies had not left us [h](X)descendants,
(Y)We would have become like Sodom, and would have [i]been like Gomorrah.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Lit O
- Romans 9:21 Lit for honor
- Romans 9:21 Lit for dishonor
- Romans 9:22 Lit But
- Romans 9:28 Lit finishing it
- Romans 9:28 Lit cutting it short
- Romans 9:29 Gr sabaoth, for Heb tsebaoth (armies)
- Romans 9:29 Lit seed
- Romans 9:29 Lit been made like
Romans 9:18-29
New International Version
Romans 9:18-29
New International Version
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)
19 One of you will say to me:(B) “Then why does God still blame us?(C) For who is able to resist his will?”(D) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(E) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(F) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](G) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(H)
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(I) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(J) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(K) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(L)— 24 even us, whom he also called,(M) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(N) 25 As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[b](O)
26 and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[c](P)
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(Q)
only the remnant will be saved.(R)
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[d](S)
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
- Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
- Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
- Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
- Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
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