Romans 9:18-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?

²⁰ O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹ Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

²² What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

²³ That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?

²⁴ Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.

²⁵ As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.

²⁶ And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

²⁷ And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

²⁸ For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁹ And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

³¹ But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

³² Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

³³ As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.