I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit 1Ti 2:7Rom 1:9Gal 1:202Co 11:10Php 1:81Th 2:51Ti 1:52Co 1:12 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. Php 3:18Jer 13:17Lam 3:51Psa 119:136Rom 10:1Luk 19:41-44Ezk 9:4Jer 9:1 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh Exo 32:32Est 8:6Rom 11:14Gal 3:101Co 16:221Co 12:31Sa 14:241Sa 14:44 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; Eph 2:12Psa 147:19Gen 17:2Rom 9:6Act 2:39Deu 7:6Exo 4:22Heb 9:1 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. Jhn 10:30Col 1:16-19Jhn 1:1-3Rom 1:251Jn 5:20Rom 1:31Ti 3:16Php 2:6-11
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel. Gal 6:16Rom 2:28-29Rom 11:1-2Rom 3:3Rom 4:12-16Jhn 1:47Isa 55:11Mat 24:35 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.” 1 Gen 21:12Heb 11:18Jhn 8:37-39Gal 4:23Luk 3:8Php 3:3Jhn 8:33Luk 16:24-25 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs. Jhn 1:13Rom 4:11-16Gal 3:26-29Rom 8:14Gal 4:22-311Jn 3:1-2Psa 87:6Gen 31:15 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.” 2 Gen 18:10Gen 18:14Gen 17:21Gen 21:2Heb 11:11-12Heb 11:17 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. Gen 25:21-23Luk 16:26Rom 5:11Rom 5:3 For 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, 3 2Ti 1:9Eph 1:4-52Pe 1:10Eph 1:9-11Rom 8:28-30Tit 3:51Pe 5:102Th 2:13-14 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.” 4 Gen 25:22-231Ki 22:472Sa 8:14 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 5 Mal 1:2-3Deu 21:15Gen 29:31Gen 29:33Luk 14:26Mat 10:37Pro 13:24Jhn 12:25
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! 2Ch 19:7Psa 145:17Deu 32:4Job 34:10-12Psa 92:15Rev 16:7Job 8:3Gen 18:25 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 6 Exo 33:19Rom 9:16Mic 7:18Rom 9:18-19Exo 34:6-7Isa 27:11 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. Eph 2:8Mat 11:25-26Php 2:131Pe 2:9-10Eph 2:4-5Tit 3:3-51Co 1:26-31Rom 9:11 For 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 proclaimed in all the earth.” 7 Exo 9:16Pro 16:4Exo 10:1-2Exo 14:17-181Sa 2:7-8Est 4:14Exo 15:14-15Isa 37:20 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. Exo 4:21Jos 11:20Rom 9:15-162Th 2:10-12Rom 11:7-8Deu 2:30Rom 5:20-21Act 28:26-28
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” Dan 4:352Ch 20:61Co 15:121Co 15:35Gen 50:20Isa 10:6-7Isa 46:10-11Job 23:13-14 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” 8 Isa 29:16Isa 45:9-11Isa 64:8Job 33:13Job 36:23Job 40:2Mat 20:151Ti 6:5 Or 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? Isa 64:82Ti 2:20-21Pro 16:4Jer 18:3-6Act 9:15Rom 9:22-23Rom 9:11Rom 9:18 What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, Pro 16:4Jud 1:41Pe 2:8Rom 9:212Ti 2:20Exo 9:161Th 2:16Rom 9:17 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory— Rom 2:41Pe 1:2-5Col 1:27Eph 2:10Eph 3:16Rom 5:20-211Ch 29:182Ti 2:21 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? Col 3:111Co 1:91Pe 5:10Act 13:47-48Act 15:14Act 21:17-20Eph 2:11-13Eph 3:6-8 As he says also in Hosea, Hos 2:231Pe 2:10Ezk 16:8Jhn 16:27Rom 1:7Hos 1:1-2
“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;
and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.” 9
“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ Hos 1:9-101Jn 3:1-3Gal 3:26Isa 43:6Rom 8:162Co 6:18Jhn 11:52Mat 16:16
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” 10
Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Isa 10:20-23Rom 11:4-6Isa 1:9Hos 1:10Ezk 6:8Jer 5:10Isa 11:11Gen 22:17
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
it is the remnant who will be saved;
for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Isa 10:23Act 17:31Isa 30:12-14Psa 9:8Rev 19:11Dan 9:26-27Isa 28:22Isa 5:16
because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.” 11
As Isaiah has said before, Isa 1:9Isa 13:19Amo 4:11Jas 5:4Jer 49:18Jer 50:402Pe 2:6Deu 29:23
“Unless the Lord of Armies 12 had left us a seed,
we would have become like Sodom,
and would have been made like Gomorrah.” 13
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; Php 3:9Heb 11:7Gal 2:16Rom 4:11Gal 5:5Rom 10:20Eph 2:12Isa 51:1 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. Rom 11:7Jas 2:10-11Rom 3:20Gal 5:3-4Rom 10:2-4Gal 3:10-11Gal 3:21Isa 51:1 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 1Co 1:23Luk 7:231Pe 2:8Rom 11:11Rom 4:16Act 16:30-34Jhn 6:27-29Luk 2:34 even as it is written, Isa 28:16Isa 8:14-15Rom 10:11Jol 2:26-271Pe 2:6-8Psa 118:22Psa 25:2-3Rom 5:5
“Behold, 14 I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.” 15