Romans 9:14-33
New American Standard Bible
14 (A)What shall we say then? (B)There is no injustice with God, is there? [a](C)Far from it! 15 For He says to Moses, “(D)I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.” 16 So then, it does not depend on the person who [b]wants it nor the one who [c](E)runs, but on (F)God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “(G)For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed [d]throughout the earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He (H)hardens whom He desires.
19 (I)You will say to me then, “(J)Why does He still find fault? For (K)who has resisted His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, [e](L)you foolish person, who (M)answers back to God? (N)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 [f]for honorable use, and another [g]for common use? 22 [h]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great (O)patience objects of wrath (P)prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known (Q)the riches of His glory upon (R)objects of mercy, which He (S)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 namely us, whom He also (T)called, (U)not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, 25 as He also says in Hosea:
“(V)I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
26 “(W)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 (X)the living God.”
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “(Y)Though the number of the sons of Israel may be (Z)like the sand of the sea, only (AA)the remnant will be saved; 28 (AB)for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, [i]thoroughly and [j]quickly.” 29 And just as Isaiah foretold:
“(AC)If (AD)the Lord [k]of armies had not left us [l](AE)descendants,
(AF)We would have become like Sodom, and would have [m]been like Gomorrah.”
30 (AG)What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but (AH)the righteousness that is [n]by faith; 31 however, Israel, (AI)pursuing a law of righteousness, did not (AJ)arrive at that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it [o]by faith, but as though they could [p]by works. They stumbled over (AK)the stumbling stone, 33 just as it is written:
“(AL)Behold, I am laying in Zion (AM)a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
(AN)And the one who believes in Him (AO)will not be [q]put to shame.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:14 Lit May it never happen!
- Romans 9:16 Or wills nor
- Romans 9:16 I.e., to win mercy or favor
- Romans 9:17 Lit in all
- 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 9:30 Lit out of
- Romans 9:32 Lit out of
- Romans 9:32 Lit out of
- Romans 9:33 Or disappointed
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