AICNT ROM chapter 9

9 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that there is great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises, 5 of whom the fathers and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, the one being over all, God blessed forever,[fn] amen.

6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those from Israel are Israel; 7 nor because they are the offspring of Abraham are they all children, but, “your offspring will be reckoned.”[fn]

8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

9 For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”[fn]

10 And not only this, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one, Isaac our father; 11 For not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to election might remain, 12 not by works, but by the one who calls, it was said to her, “The greater shall serve the lesser,”[fn] 13 just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[fn]

14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 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.”[fn] 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[fn] 18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

19 You will say to me then, Why [then][fn] does he still find fault? For who can resist his will? 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”[fn] 21 Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory; 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

25 As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call my people, and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”[fn] 26 “And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”[fn]

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 For he is completing and cutting short the word [[in righteousness,]][fn] [[for a concise word,]][fn] the Lord will do upon the earth..”[fn]

29 And just as Isaiah had foretold, “If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom and would have been made like Gomorrah.”[fn]

30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law [[of righteousness]].[fn]

32 Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works [[of the law]];[fn] they stumbled over the stone of stumbling, 33 just as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”[fn]

9:5, over all, God blessed forever: GPT-4 rendered the output of this verse, often associated with a high level of syntactical ambiguity, consistently as “over all, God blessed forever.” The word for “blessed” (εὐλογητὸς) is an adjective rather than a verb. Different translations punctuate this verse differently.

9:7, Genesis 21:12

9:9, Genesis 18:10, 14

9:12, Genesis 25:23

9:13, Malachi 1:2-3

9:15, Exodus 33:19

9:17, Exodus 9:16 LXX

9:19, then: 𝔓46 B(03) D(05) NA28[] SBLGNT ‖ Absent from some manuscripts. ℵ(01) A(02) THGNT BYZ TR

9:20, Isaiah 29:16, 45:9

9:25, Hosea 2:23 LXX

9:26, Hosea 1:10

9:28, in righteousness: Later manuscripts add. D(05) BYZ TR

9:28, for a concise word: Some manuscripts include. D(05) BYZ TR

9:27-28, Isaiah 10:22-23 LXX.

9:29, Isaiah 1:9 LXX

9:31, of righteousness: Later manuscripts add. BYZ TR

9:32, of the law: Later manuscripts add. D(05) BYZ TR

9:33, Isaiah 8:14 Masoretic, Isaiah 28:16 LXX

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AICNT ROM Chapter 9