them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
[29] For whom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren.
[30] Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them
he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
[31] What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?
[32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up
for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
[33] Who shall lay any thing to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
[34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died,
yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us.
[35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
[36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we
are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom.9
[1] I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
[2] That
I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
[3] For I could wish that myself were accursed
from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
[4] Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and
the promises;
[5] Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over
all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
[6] Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
[7] Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
[8] That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these
are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
[9] For this is the
word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
[10] And not only this; but when
Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
[11] (For the children being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him that calleth;)
[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.
[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