Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose^(A)

^6 (B)But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For ^(C)they are not all Israel who are of Israel, ^7 (D)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, ^(E)“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” ⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but ^(F)the children of the promise are counted as the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: ^(G)“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”

Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice

¹⁴ What shall we say then? ^(A)Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! ¹⁵ For He says to Moses, ^(B)“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ For ^(C)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^(D)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” ¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^(E)hardens.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^(F)who has resisted His will?” ²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? ^(G)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” ²¹ Does not the ^(H)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^(I)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²² What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^(J)the vessels of wrath ^(K)prepared for destruction, ²³ and that He might make known ^(L)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had ^(M)prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ even us whom He ^(N)called, ^(O)not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

Present Condition of Israel

³⁰ What shall we say then? ^(A)That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, ^(B)even the righteousness of faith; ³¹ but Israel, ^(C)pursuing the law of righteousness, ^(D)has not attained to the law ^[a]of righteousness. ³² Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, ^[b]by the works of the law. For ^(E)they stumbled at that stumbling stone. ³³ As it is written: