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Romans 9
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Romans 9
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,(A) my conscience confirms(B) it through the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself(C) were cursed(D) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(E) those of my own race,(F) 4 the people of Israel.(G) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;(H) theirs the divine glory,(I) the covenants,(J) the receiving of the law,(K) the temple worship(L) and the promises.(M) 5 Theirs are the patriarchs,(N) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,(O) who is God over all,(P) forever praised Amen.
God’s Sovereign Choice
6 It is not as though God’s word(R) had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(S) 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.”[b](T) 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(U) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(V) 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c](W)
10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(X) 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad(Y)—in order that God’s purpose(Z) in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d](AA) 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e](AB)
14 What then shall we say?(AC) Is God unjust? Not at all!(AD) 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.”[f](AE)
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(AF) 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.”[g](AG) 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(AH)
19 One of you will say to me:(AI) “Then why does God still blame us?(AJ) For who is able to resist his will?”(AK) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(AL) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(AM) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h](AN) 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?(AO)
22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(AP) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(AQ) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(AR) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(AS)— 24 even us, whom he also called,(AT) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(AU) 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,”[i](AV)
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.’”[j](AW)
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(AX)
only the remnant will be saved.(AY)
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[k](AZ)
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:
“Unless the Lord Almighty(BA)
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.”[l](BB)
Israel’s Unbelief
30 What then shall we say?(BC) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;(BD) 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(BE) have not attained their goal.(BF) 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(BG) 33 As it is written:
Footnotes
- Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
- Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12
- Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14
- Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
- Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
- Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
- Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
- Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
- Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
- Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
- Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
- Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
Romanos 9
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Romanos 9
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Deus é soberano
9 Digo a verdade em Cristo, não estou a mentir. A minha consciência é minha testemunha e o Espírito Santo o confirma. 2 O meu coração está profundamente abatido dentro de mim e entristeço dia após dia. 3 Pois eu até preferia ser separado de Cristo, se isso pudesse ser condição para a salvação dos meus irmãos, da gente do meu povo. 4 Eles são os Israelitas. Deus adotou-os como filhos e revelou-lhes a sua glória. Com eles fez alianças e deu-lhes a sua Lei; ensinou-os a adorá-lo e deu-lhes promessas. 5 A este povo pertencem os patriarcas e o próprio Cristo, no que diz respeito à sua natureza humana, ele que é Deus sobre tudo, para sempre louvado! Amém!
6 Pois bem, terá Deus falhado no cumprimento da sua promessa aos judeus? Naturalmente que não! O que acontece é que nem todos os que descendem de Israel pertencem a Israel. 7 O simples facto de serem da descendência de Abraão não os torna filhos de Abraão. As Escrituras dizem: “Só através de Isaque é que a minha promessa terá cumprimento”,[a] embora Abraão tivesse outros filhos.
8 Isto significa que nem todos os filhos de Abraão são necessariamente filhos de Deus. São os filhos da promessa que são considerados filhos de Abraão. 9 Porque Deus prometeu: “No próximo ano virei e Sara terá um filho.”[b]
10 Não foi caso único. Este filho é Isaque, nosso pai. A sua mulher, Rebeca, estava para ter dois gémeos. 11 Ainda antes que as crianças tivessem nascido e feito fosse o que fosse, bem ou mal, e para que o propósito de Deus prevalecesse, na escolha que ele próprio fez, 12 sem depender de obras, mas daquele que chama, foi dito a Rebeca: “o mais velho terá de submeter-se ao mais novo.”[c] 13 Como está escrito:
“Mostrei-vos o meu amor amando o vosso pai Jacob.
Rejeitei o seu próprio irmão Esaú.”[d]
14 Haverá então injustiça da parte de Deus? Claro que não! 15 Porque Deus tinha dito a Moisés:
“Terei compaixão de quem eu quiser
e serei misericordioso para com quem eu entender.”[e]
16 Assim pois as bênçãos de Deus não são dadas só porque alguém decide recebê-las, ou porque tenha feito muitas obras para as alcançar. Elas dependem de Deus que tem misericórdia de quem quiser.
17 O Faraó, o rei do Egito, é um exemplo desse facto. Deus disse: “Para isto te levantei como rei do Egito, para por ti mostrar o meu poder, a fim de que em toda a Terra seja honrado o meu nome.”[f] 18 Como veem, Deus é benigno para com uns, mas endurece o coração de outros, conforme a sua vontade.
19 Bem, podem perguntar: “Por que razão Deus culpa as pessoas por não o ouvirem? Não estão elas a fazer simplesmente o que ele manda?” 20 Não, não digam isso! Quem é o homem, um pobre mortal, para criticar Deus? Um objeto fabricado dirá àquele que o fabricou: “Porque me fizeste desta forma?”[g] 21 Quando um oleiro faz um jarro de barro não terá o direito de usar o mesmo barro para fazer um belo objeto de ornamentação e um outro para uso corrente? 22 Então não teria Deus o direito de manifestar a sua cólera e dar a conhecer o seu poder contra aqueles que estão debaixo da sua cólera e que se encaminham para a perdição, mas cuja maldade ele tem suportado com paciência? 23 Ele fez isto para dar a conhecer as riquezas da sua glória àqueles de quem ele tem misericórdia e que ele previamente preparou para receberem a sua glória. 24 Somos nós aqueles que ele chamou, quer sejamos judeus ou gentios.
25 Lembram-se do que está escrito no profeta Oseias:
“Direi àqueles que não são meus: agora são meu povo;
e amarei aqueles que estavam fora do meu amor”?[h]
26 E diz ainda:
“Em vez de lhes dizer: ‘Não são meu povo’,
serão chamados ‘filhos do Deus vivo.’ ”[i]
27 E Isaías, o profeta, proclamava, acerca de Israel:
“Ainda que o número dos filhos de Israel
seja como a areia das praias,
apenas um pequeno número será salvo.
28 Porque o Senhor dará execução à sua palavra na Terra,
de uma forma integral,
e no seu devido momento, sem alterações.”[j]
29 E noutro lugar o mesmo profeta já havia dito:
“Se não fosse a misericórdia do Senhor dos exércitos,
poupando descendência, teríamos sido destruídos,
tal como aconteceu com as cidades de Sodoma e Gomorra.”[k]
A descrença de Israel
30 Que diremos então destas coisas? Só isto: que Deus deu a justiça aos gentios, que antes não procuravam a justiça. E foi uma justiça obtida pela fé. 31 Israel, que tinha procurado observar a Lei de Deus, não conseguiu fazê-lo. 32 E porque não? Porque tentava ser salvo através do cumprimento da Lei, em vez de fazer depender da fé a sua salvação. Tropeçou na pedra 33 de que fala a Escritura:
“Eis que ponho em Sião uma pedra de tropeço,
e uma rocha que os fará cair.
Aquele que nele crer não será envergonhado.”[l]
Romans 9
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Romans 9
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God and the Jewish People
9 I am in Christ and I am telling you the truth. I am not lying. And my conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, agrees that what I say now is true. 2 I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness 3 for my own people. They are my brothers and sisters, my earthly family. I wish I could help them. I would even have a curse on me and cut myself off from Christ if that would help them. 4 They are the people of Israel, God’s chosen children. They have the glory of God and the agreements he made between himself and his people. God gave them the Law of Moses, the Temple worship, and his promises. 5 They are the descendants of our great fathers, and they are the earthly family of the Messiah, who is God over all things. Praise him forever![a] Amen.
6 I don’t mean that God failed to keep his promise to the Jewish people. But only some of the people of Israel are really God’s people.[b] 7 And only some of Abraham’s descendants are true children of Abraham. This is what God said to Abraham: “Your true descendants will be those who come through Isaac.”[c] 8 This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those who become God’s children because of the promise he made to Abraham. 9 Here is what God said in that promise: “About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son.”[d]
10 And that is not all. Rebecca also had sons, and they had the same father. He is our father Isaac. 11-12 But before the two sons were born, God told Rebecca, “The older son will serve the younger.”[e] This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this before they were born so that the boy he wanted would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything the boys did. 13 As the Scriptures say, “I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.”[f]
14 So what does this mean? That God is not fair? We cannot say that. 15 God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I want to show mercy to. I will show pity to anyone I choose.”[g] 16 So God will choose anyone he decides to show mercy to, and his choice does not depend on what people want or try to do. 17 In the Scriptures God says to Pharaoh: “I made you king so that you could do this for me. I wanted to show my power through you. I wanted my name to be announced throughout the world.”[h] 18 So God shows mercy to those he wants to show mercy to and makes stubborn those he wants to make stubborn.
19 So one of you will ask me, “If God controls what we do, why does he blame us for our sins?” 20 Don’t ask that. You are only human and have no right to question God. A clay jar does not question the one who made it. It does not say, “Why did you make me like this?” 21 The one who makes the jar can make anything he wants. He uses the same clay to make different things. He might make one thing for special purposes and another for daily use.
22 It is the same way with what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to let people see his power. But he patiently endured those he was angry with—people who were ready to be destroyed. 23 He waited with patience so that he could make known the riches of his glory to the people he has chosen to receive his mercy. God has already prepared them to share his glory. 24 We are those people, the ones God chose not only from the Jews but also from those who are not Jews. 25 As the Scriptures say in the book of Hosea,
“The people who are not mine—
I will say they are my people.
And the people I did not love—
I will say they are the people I love.” (A)
26 And,
“Where God said in the past,
‘You are not my people’—
there they will be called children of the living God.” (B)
27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel:
“There are so many people of Israel,
they are like the grains of sand by the sea.
But only a few of them will be saved.
28 Yes, the Lord will quickly finish judging the people on the earth.” (C)
29 It is just as Isaiah said:
“The Lord All-Powerful
allowed some of our people to live.
If he had not done that,
we would now be like Sodom,
and we would be like Gomorrah.” (D)
30 So what does all this mean? It means that people who are not Jews were made right with God because of their faith, even though they were not trying to make themselves right. 31 And the people of Israel, who tried to make themselves right with God by following the law, did not succeed. 32 They failed because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did. They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall. 33 The Scriptures talk about that stone:
“Look, I put in Zion a stone that will make people stumble.
It is a rock that will make people fall.
But anyone who trusts in him
will never be disappointed.” (E)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:5 Messiah, who is … forever! Or “Messiah. May God, who rules over all things, be praised forever!”
- Romans 9:6 God’s people Literally, “Israel,” the people God chose to bring his blessings to the world.
- Romans 9:7
Quote from Gen. 21:12. - Romans 9:9
Quote from Gen. 18:10, 14. - Romans 9:11
Quote from Gen. 25:23. - Romans 9:13
Quote from Mal. 1:2-3. - Romans 9:15
Quote from Ex. 33:19. - Romans 9:17
Quote from Ex. 9:16.
Romans 9
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Romans 9
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Israel’s Rejection of Christ
9 I (A)tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 (B)that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For (C)I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, (D)to whom pertain the adoption, (E)the glory, (F)the covenants, (G)the giving of the law, (H)the service of God, and (I)the promises; 5 (J)of whom are the fathers and from (K)whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, (L)who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose(M)
6 (N)But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For (O)they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7 (P)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, (Q)“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 (R)the children of the promise are counted as the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise: (S)“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”
10 And not only this, but when (T)Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of (U)Him who calls), 12 it was said to her, (V)“The older shall serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (W)“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice
14 What shall we say then? (X)Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He says to Moses, (Y)“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 (Z)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, (AA)“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 (AB)hardens.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For (AC)who has resisted His will?” 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (AD)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Does not the (AE)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make (AF)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 (AG)the vessels of wrath (AH)prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known (AI)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had (AJ)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He (AK)called, (AL)not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As He says also in Hosea:
(AM)“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26 “And(AN) it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
(AO)“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
(AP)The remnant will be saved.
28 For [b]He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
(AQ)Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
29 And as Isaiah said before:
(AR)“Unless the Lord of [c]Sabaoth had left us a seed,
(AS)We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Present Condition of Israel
30 What shall we say then? (AT)That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, (AU)even the righteousness of faith; 31 but Israel, (AV)pursuing the law of righteousness, (AW)has not attained to the law [d]of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, [e]by the works of the law. For (AX)they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33 As it is written:
(AY)“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
And (AZ)whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:3 Or relatives
- Romans 9:28 NU the Lord will finish the work and cut it short upon the earth
- Romans 9:29 Lit., in Heb., Hosts
- Romans 9:31 NU omits of righteousness
- Romans 9:32 NU by works, omitting of the law
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