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Romans 7-9
New American Standard Bible 1995

Believers United to Christ

7 Or do you not know, (A)brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For (B)the married woman is bound by law to her [a]husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law [b]concerning the husband. 3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were (C)made to die (D)to the Law (E)through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were (F)in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were (G)aroused by the Law, were at work (H)in [c]the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been (I)released from the Law, having (J)died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in (K)newness of (L)the [d]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

7 (M)What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? (N)May it never be! On the contrary, (O)I would not have come to know sin except [e]through the Law; for I would not have known about [f]coveting if the Law had not said, “(P)You shall not [g]covet.” 8 But sin, (Q)taking opportunity (R)through the commandment, produced in me [h]coveting of every kind; for (S)apart [i]from the Law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart [j]from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was [k](T)to result in life, proved [l]to result in death for me; 11 for sin, (U)taking an opportunity (V)through the commandment, (W)deceived me and through it killed me. 12 (X)So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? (Y)May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

The Conflict of Two Natures

14 For we know that the Law is (Z)spiritual, but I am (AA)of flesh, (AB)sold [m](AC)into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, (AD)I do not understand; for I am not practicing (AE)what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with (AF)the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, (AG)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my (AH)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For (AI)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, (AJ)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then (AK)the [n]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God [o]in (AL)the inner man, 23 but I see (AM)a different law in [p]the members of my body, waging war against the (AN)law of my mind and making me a prisoner [q]of (AO)the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [r](AP)the body of this (AQ)death? 25 (AR)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh (AS)the law of sin.

Deliverance from Bondage

8 Therefore there is now no (AT)condemnation for those who are (AU)in (AV)Christ Jesus. 2 For (AW)the law of the Spirit of life [s]in (AX)Christ Jesus (AY)has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For (AZ)what the Law could not do, [t](BA)weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in (BB)the likeness of [u]sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the (BC)requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who (BD)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on (BE)the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, (BF)the things of the Spirit. 6 (BG)For the mind set on the flesh is (BH)death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is (BI)hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are (BJ)in the flesh cannot please God.

9 However, you are not (BK)in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God (BL)dwells in you. But (BM)if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 10 (BN)If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is [v]alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who (BO)raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, (BP)He who raised (BQ)Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies [w]through His Spirit who dwells in you.

12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for (BR)if you are living according to the flesh, you [x]must die; but if by the Spirit you are (BS)putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are (BT)being led by the Spirit of God, these are (BU)sons of God. 15 For you (BV)have not received a spirit of slavery [y]leading to fear again, but you (BW)have received [z]a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “(BX)Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself (BY)testifies with our spirit that we are (BZ)children of God, 17 and if children, (CA)heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, (CB)if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (CC)are not worthy to be compared with the (CD)glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the (CE)anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for (CF)the revealing of the (CG)sons of God. 20 For the creation (CH)was subjected to (CI)futility, not willingly, but (CJ)because of Him who subjected it, [aa]in hope 21 that (CK)the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation (CL)groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 (CM)And not only this, but also we ourselves, having (CN)the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves (CO)groan within ourselves, (CP)waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, (CQ)the redemption of our body. 24 For (CR)in hope we have been saved, but (CS)hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But (CT)if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

Our Victory in Christ

26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for (CU)we do not know how to pray as we should, but (CV)the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and (CW)He who searches the hearts knows what (CX)the mind of the Spirit is, because He (CY)intercedes for the [ab]saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that [ac]God causes (CZ)all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are (DA)called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He (DB)foreknew, He also (DC)predestined to become (DD)conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the (DE)firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He (DF)predestined, He also (DG)called; and these whom He called, He also (DH)justified; and these whom He justified, He also (DI)glorified.

31 (DJ)What then shall we say to these things? (DK)If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who (DL)did not spare His own Son, but (DM)delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against (DN)God’s elect? (DO)God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who (DP)condemns? Christ Jesus is He who (DQ)died, yes, rather who was [ad](DR)raised, who is (DS)at the right hand of God, who also (DT)intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from (DU)the love of [ae]Christ? Will (DV)tribulation, or distress, or (DW)persecution, or (DX)famine, or (DY)nakedness, or (DZ)peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,

“(EA)For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly (EB)conquer through (EC)Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither (ED)death, nor life, nor (EE)angels, nor principalities, nor (EF)things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from (EG)the love of God, which is (EH)in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Solicitude for Israel

9 (EI)I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. 3 For (EJ)I could [af]wish that I myself were (EK)accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen (EL)according to the flesh, 4 who are (EM)Israelites, to whom belongs (EN)the adoption as sons, and (EO)the glory and (EP)the covenants and (EQ)the giving of the Law and (ER)the temple service and (ES)the promises, 5 whose are (ET)the fathers, and (EU)from whom is [ag]the Christ according to the flesh, (EV)who is over all, (EW)God (EX)blessed [ah]forever. Amen.

6 But it is not as though (EY)the word of God has failed. (EZ)For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; 7 nor are they all children (FA)because they are Abraham’s [ai]descendants, but: “[aj](FB)through Isaac your [ak]descendants will be named.” 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are (FC)children of God, but the (FD)children of the promise are regarded as [al]descendants. 9 For this is the word of promise: “(FE)At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.” 10 (FF)And not only this, but there was (FG)Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; 11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that (FH)God’s purpose according to His choice would [am]stand, not [an]because of works but [ao]because of Him who calls, 12 it was said to her, “(FI)The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written, “(FJ)Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

14 (FK)What shall we say then? (FL)There is no injustice with God, is there? (FM)May it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, “(FN)I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who (FO)runs, but on (FP)God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “(FQ)For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed [ap]throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He (FR)hardens whom He desires.

19 (FS)You will say to me then, “(FT)Why does He still find fault? For (FU)who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, (FV)O man, who (FW)answers back to God? (FX)The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel [aq]for honorable use and another [ar]for common use? 22 [as]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much (FY)patience vessels of wrath (FZ)prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known (GA)the riches of His glory upon (GB)vessels of mercy, which He (GC)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He also (GD)called, (GE)not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. 25 As He says also in Hosea,

“(GF)I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
26 “(GG)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 (GH)the living God.”

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “(GI)Though the number of the sons of Israel be (GJ)like the sand of the sea, it is (GK)the remnant that will be saved; 28 (GL)for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, [at]thoroughly and [au]quickly.” 29 And just as Isaiah foretold,

“(GM)Unless (GN)the Lord of [av]Sabaoth had left to us a [aw]posterity,
(GO)We would have become like Sodom, and would have [ax]resembled Gomorrah.”

30 (GP)What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even (GQ)the righteousness which is [ay]by faith; 31 but Israel, (GR)pursuing a law of righteousness, did not (GS)arrive at that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it [az]by faith, but as though it were [ba]by works. They stumbled over (GT)the stumbling stone, 33 just as it is written,

“(GU)Behold, I lay in Zion (GV)a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
(GW)And he who believes in Him (GX)will not be [bb]disappointed.”

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:2 Lit living husband
  2. Romans 7:2 Lit of
  3. Romans 7:5 Lit our members to bear
  4. Romans 7:6 Or spirit
  5. Romans 7:7 Or through law
  6. Romans 7:7 Or lust
  7. Romans 7:7 Or lust
  8. Romans 7:8 Or lust
  9. Romans 7:8 Or from law
  10. Romans 7:9 Or from law
  11. Romans 7:10 Lit to life
  12. Romans 7:10 Lit to death
  13. Romans 7:14 Lit under sin
  14. Romans 7:21 Lit law
  15. Romans 7:22 Or concerning
  16. Romans 7:23 Lit my members
  17. Romans 7:23 Lit in
  18. Romans 7:24 Or this body of death
  19. Romans 8:2 Or has set you free in Christ Jesus
  20. Romans 8:3 Lit in which it was weak
  21. Romans 8:3 Lit flesh of sin
  22. Romans 8:10 Lit life
  23. Romans 8:11 One early ms reads because of
  24. Romans 8:13 Or are going to
  25. Romans 8:15 Lit for fear again
  26. Romans 8:15 Or the Spirit
  27. Romans 8:20 Or in hope; because the creation
  28. Romans 8:27 Or holy ones
  29. Romans 8:28 One early ms reads all things work together for good
  30. Romans 8:34 One early ms reads raised from the dead
  31. Romans 8:35 Two early mss read God
  32. Romans 9:3 Lit pray
  33. Romans 9:5 I.e. the Messiah
  34. Romans 9:5 Lit unto the ages
  35. Romans 9:7 Lit seed
  36. Romans 9:7 Lit in
  37. Romans 9:7 Lit seed
  38. Romans 9:8 Lit seed
  39. Romans 9:11 Lit remain
  40. Romans 9:11 Lit from
  41. Romans 9:11 Lit from
  42. Romans 9:17 Lit in
  43. Romans 9:21 Lit for honor
  44. Romans 9:21 Lit for dishonor
  45. Romans 9:22 Lit But
  46. Romans 9:28 Lit finishing it
  47. Romans 9:28 Lit cutting it short
  48. Romans 9:29 I.e. Hosts
  49. Romans 9:29 Lit seed
  50. Romans 9:29 Lit been made like
  51. Romans 9:30 Lit out of
  52. Romans 9:32 Lit out of
  53. Romans 9:32 Lit out of
  54. Romans 9:33 Lit put to shame
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Romans 7-9
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Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters(A)—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.(B) 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.(C) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law(D) through the body of Christ,(E) that you might belong to another,(F) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a](G) the sinful passions aroused by the law(H) were at work in us,(I) so that we bore fruit for death.(J) 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law(K) so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.(L)

The Law and Sin

7 What shall we say, then?(M) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!(N) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.(O) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b](P) 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(Q) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.(R) 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life(S) actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,(T) deceived me,(U) and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.(V)

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good(W) to bring about my death,(X) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,(Y) sold(Z) as a slave to sin.(AA) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.(AB) 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.(AC) 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.(AD) 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c](AE) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.(AF) 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.(AG)

21 So I find this law at work:(AH) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being(AI) I delight in God’s law;(AJ) 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(AK) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(AL) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(AM) 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!(AN)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,(AO) but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.(AP)

Life Through the Spirit

8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation(AQ) for those who are in Christ Jesus,(AR) 2 because through Christ Jesus(AS) the law of the Spirit who gives life(AT) has set you[e] free(AU) from the law of sin(AV) and death. 3 For what the law was powerless(AW) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[f](AX) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh(AY) to be a sin offering.[g](AZ) And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement(BA) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.(BB)

5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;(BC) but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.(BD) 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death,(BE) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life(BF) and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(BG) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh(BH) cannot please God.

9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh(BI) but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.(BJ) And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,(BK) they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you,(BL) then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life[h] because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead(BM) is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies(BN) because of[i] his Spirit who lives in you.

12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.(BO) 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;(BP) but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,(BQ) you will live.(BR)

14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God(BS) are the children of God.(BT) 15 The Spirit(BU) you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again;(BV) rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[j] And by him we cry, “Abba,[k] Father.”(BW) 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit(BX) that we are God’s children.(BY) 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs(BZ)—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings(CA) in order that we may also share in his glory.(CB)

Present Suffering and Future Glory

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.(CC) 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God(CD) to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,(CE) in hope 21 that[l] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(CF) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(CG)

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(CH) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,(CI) groan(CJ) inwardly as we wait eagerly(CK) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.(CL) 24 For in this hope we were saved.(CM) But hope that is seen is no hope at all.(CN) Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.(CO)

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit(CP) himself intercedes for us(CQ) through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts(CR) knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes(CS) for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good(CT) of those who love him, who[m] have been called(CU) according to his purpose.(CV) 29 For those God foreknew(CW) he also predestined(CX) to be conformed to the image of his Son,(CY) that he might be the firstborn(CZ) among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined,(DA) he also called;(DB) those he called, he also justified;(DC) those he justified, he also glorified.(DD)

More Than Conquerors

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?(DE) If God is for us,(DF) who can be against us?(DG) 32 He who did not spare his own Son,(DH) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge(DI) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns?(DJ) No one. Christ Jesus who died(DK)—more than that, who was raised to life(DL)—is at the right hand of God(DM) and is also interceding for us.(DN) 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?(DO) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?(DP) 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[n](DQ)

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors(DR) through him who loved us.(DS) 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[o] neither the present nor the future,(DT) nor any powers,(DU) 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God(DV) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(DW)

Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,(DX) my conscience confirms(DY) it through the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself(DZ) were cursed(EA) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(EB) those of my own race,(EC) 4 the people of Israel.(ED) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;(EE) theirs the divine glory,(EF) the covenants,(EG) the receiving of the law,(EH) the temple worship(EI) and the promises.(EJ) 5 Theirs are the patriarchs,(EK) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,(EL) who is God over all,(EM) forever praised![p](EN) Amen.

God’s Sovereign Choice

6 It is not as though God’s word(EO) had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(EP) 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[q](EQ) 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(ER) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(ES) 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[r](ET)

10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(EU) 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad(EV)—in order that God’s purpose(EW) in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[s](EX) 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[t](EY)

14 What then shall we say?(EZ) Is God unjust? Not at all!(FA) 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.”[u](FB)

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(FC) 17 For 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.”[v](FD) 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(FE)

19 One of you will say to me:(FF) “Then why does God still blame us?(FG) For who is able to resist his will?”(FH) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(FI) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(FJ) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[w](FK) 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?(FL)

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(FM) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(FN) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(FO) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(FP)— 24 even us, whom he also called,(FQ) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(FR) 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,”[x](FS)

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.’”[y](FT)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(FU)
    only the remnant will be saved.(FV)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[z](FW)

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(FX)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[aa](FY)

Israel’s Unbelief

30 What then shall we say?(FZ) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;(GA) 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(GB) have not attained their goal.(GC) 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(GD) 33 As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[ab](GE)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.
  2. Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
  3. Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
  4. Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh
  5. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me
  6. Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.
  7. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin
  8. Romans 8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive
  9. Romans 8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through
  10. Romans 8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.
  11. Romans 8:15 Aramaic for father
  12. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For
  13. Romans 8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who
  14. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
  15. Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers
  16. Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
  17. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12
  18. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14
  19. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
  20. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
  21. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
  22. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
  23. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
  24. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  25. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  26. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
  27. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
  28. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
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