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   [12] It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.   
   [13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.   
   [14] What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.   
   [15] For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and   
   I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.   
   [16] So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of   
   God that sheweth mercy.   
   [17] For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I   
   raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might   
   be declared throughout all the earth.   
   [18] Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he   
   hardeneth.   
      
   Wrath and Mercy of God   
      
   19 (2Ch 20:6; Da 4:35) You will then say to me,   
   "Why does He yet find fault? For who can resist His will?"   
   20 (Isa 29:16; Job 33:13) Rather, O man, who are you to answer back   
   to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it,   
   "Why have you made me like this?"   
   21 (Isa 64:8) Does the potter not have power over the clay to make   
   from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?   
   22 (Pr 16:4; 1Pe 2:8) What if God, willing to show His wrath   
   and to make His power known, endured with much patience   
   the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,   
   23 (Ro 2:4; Eph 3:16) in order to make known the riches of His glory   
   on the vessels of mercy, which He previously prepared for glory,   
   24 even us, whom He has called, not from the Jews only,   
   but also from the Gentiles?   
   25 (Hos 2:23; 1Pe 2:10) As indeed He says in Hosea:   
   "I will call those who were not My people, 'My people,'   
   and her who was not beloved, 'Beloved,' "(Hos 2:23.)   
   26 and,   
   "In the place where it was said to them,   
   'You are not My people,'   
   there they shall be called 'sons of the living God.'"(Hos 1:10.)   
   27 (Isa 10:20-23; Hos 1:10) Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:   
   "Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea,   
   a remnant shall be saved.(Isa 10:22.)   
   28 For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness,   
   because the Lord will make a quick work upon the earth."(Isa 10:23.)   
   29 (Isa 1:9; 13:19) And as Isaiah previously said:   
   "Unless the Lord of Hosts   
   had left us a seed,   
   we would have become like Sodom,   
   and been made like Gomorrah."(Isa 1:9.)   
      
   [19] Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath   
   resisted his will?   
   [20] Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing   
   formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?   
   [21] Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one   
   vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?   
   [22] What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known,   
   endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:   
   [23] And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of   
   mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,   
   [24] Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the   
   Gentiles?   
   [25] As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my   
   people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.   
   [26] And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto   
   them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the   
   living God.   
   [27] Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children   
   of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:   
   [28] For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because   
   a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.   
   [29] And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a   
   seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.   
      
   Israel and the Gospel   
      
   30 (Php 3:9; Heb 11:7) What shall we say then? The Gentiles,   
   who did not pursue righteousness, have attained righteousness,   
   even the righteousness which is by faith,   
   31 (Ro 11:7) but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness,   
   did not attain the law of righteousness.   
   32 (1Pe 2:8) Why not? Because they did not seek it by faith,   
   but by the works of the law. For they stumbled over the stumbling stone.   
   33 (Isa 28:16; Ro 10:11) As it is written:   
   "Look! I lay in Zion a stumbling stone   
   and rock of offense,   
   and whoever believes in Him will not be ashamed." (Isa 8:14; 28:16.)   
      
   [30] What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after   
   righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which   
   is of faith.   
   [31] But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not   
   attained to the law of righteousness.   
   [32] Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the   
   works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;   
   [33] As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of   
   offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.   
      
   Romans 10   
   1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel   
   is that they may be saved.   
   2 (Ac 21:20) For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God,   
   but not according to knowledge.   
   3 (Ro 1:17) For, being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking   
   to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit   
   to the righteousness of God.   
   4 (Gal 3:24) Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness   
   for every one who believes.   
      
   [1] Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they   
   might be saved.   
   [2] For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according   
   to knowledge.   
   [3] For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to   
   establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the   
   righteousness of God.   
   [4] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that   
   believeth.   
      
   Salvation for All   
      
   5 (Lev 18:5; Ne 9:29) For Moses writes about the righteousness   
   which is based on the law: "The man who does those things shall live   
   by them." (Lev 18:5.)   
   6 But the righteousness which is based on faith says,   
   "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' "(Dt 30:12.)   
   (that is, to bring Christ down),   
   7 (Heb 13:20) or, 'Who will descend into the deep?' " Dt 30:13.   
   (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).   
   8 (Dt 30:14) But what does it say? "The word is near you,   
   in your mouth and in your heart."(Dt 30:14.)   
   This is the word of faith that we preach:   
   9 (Lk 12:8; Php 2:11) that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord,   
   and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead,   
   you will be saved,   
   10 for with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth   
   confession is made unto salvation.   
   11 (Ro 9:33; Isa 28:16) For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes   
   in Him will not be ashamed." (Isa 28:16.)   
   12 (Ro 3:22; 2:4) For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek,   
   for the same Lord over all is generous toward all who call upon Him.   
   13 (Ac 2:21; Joel 2:32) For, "Everyone who calls on the name   
   of the Lord shall be saved."(Joel 2:32.)   
   14 (Titus 1:3) How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not   
   believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?   
   And how shall they hear without a preacher?   
   15 (Isa 52:7; Na 1:15) And how shall they preach unless they are sent?   
   As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach   
   the gospel of peace, who bring good news of good things!"(Isa 52:7.)   
   16 (Isa 53:1; Ro 3:3) But they have not all obeyed the gospel.   
      
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