Romans 9
New American Standard Bible
Deep Concern for Israel
9 (A)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 (B)I could [a]wish that I myself were (C)accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsmen (D)according to the flesh, 4 who are (E)Israelites, to whom belongs (F)the adoption as sons and daughters, (G)the glory, (H)the covenants, (I)the giving of the Law, (J)the temple service, and (K)the promises; 5 whose are (L)the fathers, and (M)from whom is the [b]Christ according to the flesh, (N)who is over all, (O)God (P)blessed [c]forever. Amen.
6 But it is not as though (Q)the word of God has failed. (R)For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; 7 nor are they all children (S)because they are Abraham’s [d](T)descendants, but: “[e](U)through Isaac your [f]descendants shall be named.” 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh [g]who are (V)children of God, but the (W)children of the promise are regarded as [h](X)descendants. 9 For this is the word of promise: “(Y)At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.” 10 (Z)And not only that, but there was also (AA)Rebekah, 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 (AB)God’s purpose according to His choice would [i]stand, not [j]because of works but [k]because of Him who calls, 12 it was said to her, “(AC)The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written: “(AD)Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
14 (AE)What shall we say then? (AF)There is no injustice with God, is there? [l](AG)Far from it! 15 For He says to Moses, “(AH)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 [m]wants it nor the one who [n](AI)runs, but on (AJ)God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “(AK)For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed [o]throughout the earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He (AL)hardens whom He desires.
19 (AM)You will say to me then, “(AN)Why does He still find fault? For (AO)who has resisted His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, [p](AP)you foolish person, who (AQ)answers back to God? (AR)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 [q]for honorable use, and another [r]for common use? 22 [s]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great (AS)patience objects of wrath (AT)prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known (AU)the riches of His glory upon (AV)objects of mercy, which He (AW)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 namely us, whom He also (AX)called, (AY)not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, 25 as He also says in Hosea:
“(AZ)I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
26 “(BA)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 (BB)the living God.”
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “(BC)Though the number of the sons of Israel may be (BD)like the sand of the sea, only (BE)the remnant will be saved; 28 (BF)for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, [t]thoroughly and [u]quickly.” 29 And just as Isaiah foretold:
“(BG)If (BH)the Lord [v]of armies had not left us [w](BI)descendants,
(BJ)We would have become like Sodom, and would have [x]been like Gomorrah.”
30 (BK)What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but (BL)the righteousness that is [y]by faith; 31 however, Israel, (BM)pursuing a law of righteousness, did not (BN)arrive at that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it [z]by faith, but as though they could [aa]by works. They stumbled over (BO)the stumbling stone, 33 just as it is written:
“(BP)Behold, I am laying in Zion (BQ)a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
(BR)And the one who believes in Him (BS)will not be [ab]put to shame.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:3 Lit pray
- Romans 9:5 I.e., Messiah
- Romans 9:5 Lit unto the ages
- Romans 9:7 Lit seed
- Romans 9:7 Lit in
- Romans 9:7 Lit seed
- Romans 9:8 Lit these
- Romans 9:8 Lit seed
- Romans 9:11 Lit remain
- Romans 9:11 Lit from
- Romans 9:11 Lit from
- 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
Romans 9
King James Version
9 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, 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 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 longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romains 9
Louis Segond
9 Je dis la vérité en Christ, je ne mens point, ma conscience m'en rend témoignage par le Saint Esprit:
2 J'éprouve une grande tristesse, et j'ai dans le coeur un chagrin continuel.
3 Car je voudrais moi-même être anathème et séparé de Christ pour mes frères, mes parents selon la chair,
4 qui sont Israélites, à qui appartiennent l'adoption, et la gloire, et les alliances, et la loi, et le culte,
5 et les promesses, et les patriarches, et de qui est issu, selon la chair, le Christ, qui est au-dessus de toutes choses, Dieu béni éternellement. Amen!
6 Ce n'est point à dire que la parole de Dieu soit restée sans effet. Car tous ceux qui descendent d'Israël ne sont pas Israël,
7 et, pour être la postérité d'Abraham, ils ne sont pas tous ses enfants; mais il est dit: En Isaac sera nommée pour toi une postérité,
8 c'est-à-dire que ce ne sont pas les enfants de la chair qui sont enfants de Dieu, mais que ce sont les enfants de la promesse qui sont regardés comme la postérité.
9 Voici, en effet, la parole de la promesse: Je reviendrai à cette même époque, et Sara aura un fils.
10 Et, de plus, il en fut ainsi de Rébecca, qui conçut du seul Isaac notre père;
11 car, quoique les enfants ne fussent pas encore nés et ils n'eussent fait ni bien ni mal, -afin que le dessein d'élection de Dieu subsistât, sans dépendre des oeuvres, et par la seule volonté de celui qui appelle, -
12 il fut dit à Rébecca: L'aîné sera assujetti au plus jeune; selon qu'il est écrit:
13 J'ai aimé Jacob Et j'ai haï Ésaü.
14 Que dirons-nous donc? Y a-t-il en Dieu de l'injustice? Loin de là!
15 Car il dit à Moïse: Je ferai miséricorde à qui je fais miséricorde, et j'aurai compassion de qui j'ai compassion.
16 Ainsi donc, cela ne dépend ni de celui qui veut, ni de celui qui court, mais de Dieu qui fait miséricorde.
17 Car l'Écriture dit à Pharaon: Je t'ai suscité à dessein pour montrer en toi ma puissance, et afin que mon nom soit publié par toute la terre.
18 Ainsi, il fait miséricorde à qui il veut, et il endurcit qui il veut.
19 Tu me diras: Pourquoi blâme-t-il encore? Car qui est-ce qui résiste à sa volonté?
20 O homme, toi plutôt, qui es-tu pour contester avec Dieu? Le vase d'argile dira-t-il à celui qui l'a formé: Pourquoi m'as-tu fait ainsi?
21 Le potier n'est-il pas maître de l'argile, pour faire avec la même masse un vase d'honneur et un vase d'un usage vil?
22 Et que dire, si Dieu, voulant montrer sa colère et faire connaître sa puissance, a supporté avec une grande patience des vases de colère formés pour la perdition,
23 et s'il a voulu faire connaître la richesse de sa gloire envers des vases de miséricorde qu'il a d'avance préparés pour la gloire?
24 Ainsi nous a-t-il appelés, non seulement d'entre les Juifs, mais encore d'entre les païens,
25 selon qu'il le dit dans Osée: J'appellerai mon peuple celui qui n'était pas mon peuple, et bien-aimée celle qui n'était pas la bien-aimée;
26 et là où on leur disait: Vous n'êtes pas mon peuple! ils seront appelés fils du Dieu vivant.
27 Ésaïe, de son côté, s'écrie au sujet d'Israël: Quand le nombre des fils d'Israël serait comme le sable de la mer, Un reste seulement sera sauvé.
28 Car le Seigneur exécutera pleinement et promptement sur la terre ce qu'il a résolu.
29 Et, comme Ésaïe l'avait dit auparavant: Si le Seigneur des armées Ne nous eût laissé une postérité, Nous serions devenus comme Sodome, Nous aurions été semblables à Gomorrhe.
30 Que dirons-nous donc? Les païens, qui ne cherchaient pas la justice, ont obtenu la justice, la justice qui vient de la foi,
31 tandis qu'Israël, qui cherchait une loi de justice, n'est pas parvenu à cette loi.
32 Pourquoi? Parce qu'Israël l'a cherchée, non par la foi, mais comme provenant des oeuvres. Ils se sont heurtés contre la pierre d'achoppement,
33 selon qu'il est écrit: Voici, je mets en Sion une pierre d'achoppement Et un rocher de scandale, Et celui qui croit en lui ne sera point confus.
Romanos 9
Dios Habla Hoy
Los privilegios de Israel
9 Como creyente que soy en Cristo, estoy diciendo la verdad, no miento. Además, mi conciencia, guiada por el Espíritu Santo, me asegura que esto es verdad: 2 tengo una gran tristeza y en mi corazón hay un dolor continuo, 3 pues hasta quisiera estar yo mismo bajo maldición, separado de Cristo, si así pudiera favorecer a mis hermanos, los de mi propia raza. 4 Son descendientes de Israel, y Dios los adoptó como hijos. Dios estuvo entre ellos con su presencia gloriosa, y les dio las alianzas, la ley de Moisés, el culto y las promesas. 5 Son descendientes de nuestros antepasados; y de su raza, en cuanto a lo humano, vino el Mesías, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, alabado por siempre. Amén.
6 Pero no es que las promesas de Dios a Israel hayan perdido su validez; más bien es que no todos los descendientes de Israel son verdadero pueblo de Israel. 7 No todos los descendientes de Abraham son verdaderamente sus hijos, sino que Dios le había dicho: «Tu descendencia vendrá por medio de Isaac.» 8 Esto nos da a entender que nadie es hijo de Dios solamente por pertenecer a cierta raza; al contrario, sólo a quienes son hijos en cumplimiento de la promesa de Dios, se les considera verdaderos descendientes. 9 Porque ésta es la promesa que Dios hizo a Abraham: «Por este tiempo volveré, y Sara tendrá un hijo.»
10 Pero eso no es todo. Los dos hijos de Rebeca eran de un mismo padre, nuestro antepasado Isaac, 11-13 y antes que ellos nacieran, cuando aún no habían hecho nada, ni bueno ni malo, Dios anunció a Rebeca: «El mayor será siervo del menor.» Lo cual también está de acuerdo con la Escritura que dice: «Amé a Jacob y aborrecí a Esaú.» Así quedó confirmado el derecho que Dios tiene de escoger, de acuerdo con su propósito, a los que quiere llamar, sin tomar en cuenta lo que hayan hecho.
Autonomía de Dios
14 ¿Diremos por eso que Dios es injusto? ¡Claro que no! 15 Porque Dios dijo a Moisés: «Tendré misericordia de quien yo quiera, y tendré compasión también de quien yo quiera.» 16 Así pues, no depende de que el hombre quiera o se esfuerce, sino de que Dios tenga compasión. 17 Pues en la Escritura Dios le dice al rey de Egipto: «Te hice rey precisamente para mostrar en ti mi poder y para darme a conocer en toda la tierra.» 18 De manera que Dios tiene compasión de quien él quiere tenerla, y también le endurece el corazón a quien él quiere endurecérselo.
19 Pero me dirás: «Siendo así, ¿de qué puede Dios culpar al hombre, si nadie puede oponerse a su voluntad?» 20 Y tú, hombre, ¿quién eres para pedirle cuentas a Dios? ¿Acaso la olla de barro le dirá al que la hizo: «Por qué me hiciste así?» 21 El alfarero tiene el derecho de hacer lo que quiera con el barro, y del mismo barro puede hacer una olla para uso especial y otra para uso común.
22 Dios, queriendo dar un ejemplo de castigo y mostrar su poder, soportó con mucha paciencia a aquellos que merecían el castigo e iban a la perdición. 23 Al mismo tiempo quiso dar a conocer en nosotros la grandeza de su gloria, pues nos tuvo compasión y nos preparó de antemano para tener parte en ella. 24 Así que Dios nos llamó, a unos de entre los judíos y a otros de entre los no judíos. 25 Como se dice en el libro de Oseas:
«A los que no eran mi pueblo, los llamaré mi pueblo;
a la que no era amada, la llamaré mi amada.
26 Y en el mismo lugar donde se les dijo: “Ustedes no son mi pueblo”,
serán llamados hijos del Dios viviente.»
27 En cuanto a los israelitas, Isaías dijo: «Aunque los descendientes de Israel sean tan numerosos como la arena del mar, solamente un resto de ellos alcanzará la salvación, 28 porque muy pronto el Señor cumplirá plenamente su palabra en todo el mundo.» 29 Como el mismo Isaías había dicho antes:
«Si el Señor todopoderoso no nos hubiera dejado descendencia,
ahora mismo estaríamos como Sodoma y Gomorra.»
30 ¿Qué diremos a esto? Que, por medio de la fe, Dios ha hecho justos a los paganos, que no buscaban la justicia. 31 En cambio, los israelitas, que querían basar su justicia en la ley, no lo lograron. 32 ¿Por qué? Porque no se basaban en la fe, sino en sus propios hechos. Por eso tropezaron con la «piedra de tropiezo» 33 que se menciona en la Escritura:
«Yo pongo en Sión una roca,
una piedra con la cual tropezarán;
el que confíe en ella, no quedará defraudado.»
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