1I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:stylus1 Timothy 2:7, 1 Timothy 2:7, Romans 1:9, Romans 1:9, Galatians 1:202That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.stylusPhilippians 3:18, Philippians 3:18, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Luke 19:413For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:stylusExodus 32:32, Exodus 32:32, Esther 8:6, Esther 8:6, Romans 11:144Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:stylusEphesians 2:12, Ephesians 2:12, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:19, Romans 9:65Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.stylusColossians 1:16, Colossians 1:19, Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:19, Romans 1:256Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.stylusRomans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Galatians 6:167Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.stylusGenesis 21:12, Genesis 21:12, Hebrews 11:18, Hebrews 11:18, John 8:378That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.stylusJohn 1:13, John 1:13, Romans 4:11, Romans 4:16, Romans 4:119For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.stylusGenesis 18:10, Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 17:2110And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father.stylusGenesis 25:21, Genesis 25:23, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 25:23, Luke 16:2611For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand):stylus2 Timothy 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:9, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:412Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.stylusGenesis 25:22, Genesis 25:23, Genesis 25:22, Genesis 25:23, 1 Kings 22:4713As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.stylusMalachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Genesis 29:3114What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!stylus2 Chronicles 19:7, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Psalms 145:17, Psalms 145:17, Deuteronomy 32:415For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.stylusExodus 33:19, Exodus 33:19, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:19, Romans 9:1616So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.stylusEphesians 2:8, Ephesians 2:8, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 11:26, Matthew 11:2517For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.stylusExodus 9:16, Exodus 9:16, Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, Exodus 14:1718Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.stylusJoshua 11:20, Joshua 11:20, Romans 9:15, Romans 9:16, Exodus 4:2119Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?stylusDaniel 4:35, Daniel 4:35, 2 Chronicles 20:6, 2 Chronicles 20:6, 1 Corinthians 15:1220O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?stylusIsaiah 29:16, Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 45:9, Isaiah 45:11, Isaiah 45:921Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?stylusIsaiah 64:8, Isaiah 64:8, 2 Timothy 2:20, 2 Timothy 2:21, 2 Timothy 2:2022What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,stylusProverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:4, Romans 9:2123That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?stylusRomans 2:4, Romans 2:4, 1 Peter 1:2, 1 Peter 1:5, 1 Peter 1:224Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.stylusColossians 3:11, Colossians 3:11, Romans 10:12, Genesis 49:10, Ephesians 2:1125As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.stylusHosea 2:23, Hosea 2:23, 1 Peter 2:10, 1 Peter 2:10, Ezekiel 16:826And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.stylusHosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, Hosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, 1 John 3:127And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.stylusIsaiah 10:20, Isaiah 10:23, Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 10:23, Romans 11:428For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.stylusIsaiah 10:23, Isaiah 10:23, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 30:14, Isaiah 30:1229And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.stylusIsaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:9, James 5:4, Amos 4:11, Isaiah 13:1930What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.stylusPhilippians 3:9, Philippians 3:9, Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:7, Romans 4:1131But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.stylusRomans 11:7, Romans 11:7, Romans 3:20, Romans 3:20, Galatians 5:332Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.stylus1 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Peter 2:8, Luke 7:23, Romans 11:1133As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.stylusIsaiah 28:16, Isaiah 28:16, Romans 10:11, Romans 10:11, Joel 2:26