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9 months ago

Romans 9:1-18 HNV — I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Ruach HaKodesh, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh, who are Yisra'elites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amein. But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Yisra'el, that are of Yisra'el. Neither, because they are Avraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Yitzchak will your seed be called." That 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. For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son." Not only so, but Rivka also conceived by one, by our father Yitzchak. 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, it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger." Even as it is written, "Ya`akov I loved, but Esav I hated." What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Par`oh, "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 eretz." So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

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