Modern Literal Version
[Romans 9]
9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience is testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 9:2 that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart. 9:3 For* I would pray that I myself were accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh,9:4 who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants* and the institution of the law and the divine service and the promises; 9:5 whose are the fathers and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all: God is gracious* forever. Amen.
9:6 But it is not such-as that the word of God has fallen short. For* they are not all Israel, (those who are from Israel); 9:7 nor, are they all children, because they are Abraham's seed; but, НIn Isaac your seed will be called.М {Gen. 21:12} 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted *for a seed. 9:9 For* this is the word of promise, НI will come according to this season and Sarah will have a son.М {Gen. 18:10} 9:10 Now not only so; but also Rebecca having impregnation out of one, our father Isaac; 9:11 for* the children not yet being born, neither practicing anything good or evil, that* the purpose of God according to his choosing might stand, not from works, but from him who is calling. 9:12 It was said to her, НThe greater will serve* the inferior.М {Gen. 25:23} 9:13 Just-as it has been written, НJacob I loved*, but Esau I hated.М {Mal. 1:2,3}
9:14 Then* what shall we say? There is not unrighteousness with God, is there? Let it not happen! 9:15 For* he says to Moses, НI will have mercy on whomever I have mercy and I will have pity on whomever I have pity.М {Ex. 33:19} 9:16 Then* consequently, it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of he who has mercyС God. 9:17 For* the Scripture says to Pharaoh, НI have lifted you up *for this same thing, *that I might show in you my power and *that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.М {Ex. 9:16} 9:18 Then* consequently, he has mercy on whom he wills and he hardens whom he wills.
9:19 Therefore you will say to me, Why is he still finding-fault? For* who is withstanding his will? 9:20 But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing will not say to him who molded it, why did you make* me so, will it? 9:21 Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make* out of the same batch one vessel *for honor and another *for dishonor? 9:22 But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carriedus, vessels of wrath framed *for destruction, in much patience; 9:23 and that* he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand *for glory, 9:24 that isus, whom he also invited, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
9:25 As he says also in Hosea, НI will call those who are not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.М{Ho. 2:23} 9:26 And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, НYou* arenot my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.М {Ho. 1:10} 9:27 Now Isaiah cries on behalf of Israel, НIf the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved; 9:28 for* he is finishing and cutting-short the word in righteousness because having been cut-short, the Lord will make* the word upon the earth.М {Is. 10:22, 23} 9:29 And, as Isaiah has said before, НIf the Lord of Hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and would have been similar to Gomorrah.М {Is. 1:9}
9:30 Then* what shall we say? That the Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, grabbed righteousness, even the righteousness from faith. 9:31 But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain the law of righteousness. 9:32 Why? Because it was not from faith, but as it was from works of the law, for* they stumbled on the stone of stumbling; 9:33 just-as it has been written, НBehold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.М {Is. 8:14 & 28:16}
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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