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1 I speak the truth in Christ-I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit-
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1 I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit--
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2 that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
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2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my countrymen by physical descent.
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3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,
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4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
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4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
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5 The forefathers are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
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5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
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6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
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6 It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
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7 Neither are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants. On the contrary, in Isaac your seed will be called.
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7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."
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8 That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but the children of the promise are considered seed.
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8 In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring.
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9 For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
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9 For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
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10 And not only that, but also when Rebekah became pregnant by Isaac our forefather
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10 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac.
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11 (for though they had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to election might stand,
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11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God's purpose in election might stand:
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12 not from works but from the One who calls) she was told: The older will serve the younger.
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12 not by works but by him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger."
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13 As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
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13 Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
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14 What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
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14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
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15 For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
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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."
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16 So then it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God who shows mercy.
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16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
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17 For the Scripture tells Pharaoh: For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
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18 So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
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18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
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19 You will say to me, therefore, "Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"
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19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"
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20 But who are you-anyone who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
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20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "
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21 Or has the potter no right over His clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
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21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
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22 And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
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22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?
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23 And [what if] He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory-
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23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory--
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24 on us whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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25 As He also says in Hosea: I will call "Not-My-People," "My-People," and she who is "Unloved," "Beloved."
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25 As he says in Hosea: "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,"
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26 And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not My people, there they will be called sons of the living God.
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26 and, "It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.' "
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27 But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of Israel's sons is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
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27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
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28 for the Lord will execute His sentence completely and decisively on the earth.
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28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality."
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29 And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.
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29 It is just as Isaiah said previously: "Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."
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30 What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness-namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
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30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
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31 But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the law.
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31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
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32 Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
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32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."
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33 As it is written: Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over, and a rock to trip over, yet the one who believes on Him will not be put to shame.
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33 As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
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