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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
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God’s Sovereign Choice
It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
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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.”
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
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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.”
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For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,
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But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
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But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
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But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
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Ingrafted Branches
Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
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After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
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All Israel Will Be Saved
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,
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and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
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For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
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For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
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For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
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so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
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You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
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Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
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And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples extol him.”
