Douay Rheims Original ↷
Romans 9 📜 📕 ↷
Paul's Concern for Fellow Israelites
1 I SPEAK the verity in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,📜💬📚
2 that I have great sadness & continual sorrow in my heart.📜💬📚
3 For I wished my self to be an anathema from Christ for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,📜💬📚
4 who are Israelites, whose is the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the testament, and the law-giving, & the service, and the promises:📜💬📚
5 whose are the fathers, & of whom Christ is according to the flesh, who is above all things God blessed for ever. Amen.📜💬📚
God's Sovereign Choice
6 But not that the word of God is frustrate. For, not all that are of Israel, they be Israelites:📜💬📚
7 nor they that are the seed of Abraham, all be children: but in Isaac shall the seed be called unto thee:📜💬📚
8 that is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh, they are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise, are esteemed for the seed.📜💬📚
9 For the word of the promise is this: According to this time will I come; & Sara shall have a son.📜💬📚
10 And not only she. But Rebecca also conceiving of one copulation, of Isaac our father.📜💬📚
11 For when they were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand)📜💬📚
12 not of works, but of the caller it was said to her: That the elder shall serve the younger,📜💬📚
13 as it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.📜💬📚
14 What shall we say then? Is there iniquity with God? God forbid.📜💬📚
15 For to Moyses he saith: I will have mercy on whom I have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.📜💬📚
16 Therefore it is not of the willer, nor the runner, but of God that sheweth mercy.📜💬📚
17 For the Scripture saith to Pharao: That to this purpose have I raised thee, that in thee I may shew my power; and that my name may be renowned in the whole earth.📜💬📚
18 Therefore on whom he will, he hath mercy; and whom he will, he doth indurate.📜💬📚
19 Thou sayst therefore unto me: Why doth he yet complain? for who resisteth his will?📜💬📚
20 O man, who art thou that doest answer God? Doth the work say to him that wrought it: Why hast thou made me thus?📜💬📚
21 Or hath not the potter of clay, power, of the same mass to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto contumely?📜💬📚
22 And if God willing to shew wrath, & to make his might known, sustained in much patience the vessels of wrath apt to destruction,📜💬📚
23 that he might shew the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he prepared unto glory.📜💬📚
24 Whom also he hath called, us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles,📜💬📚
25 as in Osee he saith: I will call that which is not my people, my people; & her that was not beloved, beloved: & her that hath not obtained mercy, having obtained mercy.📜💬📚
26 And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people: there they shall be called the sons of the living God.📜💬📚
27 And Esaie crieth for Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remains shall be saved.📜💬📚
28 For consummating a word, and abridging it in equity: because a word abridged shall our Lord make upon the earth.📜💬📚
29 And as Esay foretold: unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, we had been made like Sodom, and we had been like as Gomorrha.📜💬📚
Israel's Unbelief
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which pursued not after justice, have apprehended justice, but the justice that is of faith.📜💬📚
31 But Israel in pursuing the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.📜💬📚
32 Why so? Because not of faith, but as it were of works. For they have stumbled at the stone of stumbling,📜💬📚
33 as it is written: Behold I put in Sion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scandal: and whosoever believeth in him, shall not be confounded.📜💬📚
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