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   18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will   
   he hardeneth.   
      
   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.   
      
   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 Chapter 10   
      
   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.   
      
   5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the   
   man which doeth those things shall live by them.   
      
   6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not   
   in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ   
   down from above:)   
      
   7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ   
   again from the dead.)   
      
   8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in   
   thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;   
      
   9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt   
   believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou   
   shalt be saved.   
      
   10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the   
   mouth confession is made unto salvation.   
      
   11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.   
      
   12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the   
   same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.   
      
   13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.   
      
   14 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 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How   
   beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and   
   bring glad tidings of good things!   
      
   16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who   
   hath believed our report?   
      
   17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.   
      
   18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all   
   the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.   
      
   19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you   
   to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will   
   anger you.   
      
   20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought   
   me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.   
      
   21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands   
   unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.   
      
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