Paul's Letter to the Romans (WEB)
9:1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh, 9:4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; 9:5whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. 9:6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. 9:7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called." 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed. 9:9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." 9:10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. 9:11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, 9:12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." 9:13Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." 9:14What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! 9:15For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 9:16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth." 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. 9:19You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" 9:20But no, man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" 9:21Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 9:24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 9:25As he says also in Hosea,
"I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;
And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
9:26"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
There will they be called 'sons of the living God.'"
9:27Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
"If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
It is the remnant who will be saved;
9:28For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
9:29As Isaiah has said before,
"Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed,
We would have become like Sodom,
And would have been made like Gomorrah."
9:30What will we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 9:32Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 9:33even as it is written,
"Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.
And no one who believes in him will be put to shame."