1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

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1 Timothy 2:7, 1 Timothy 2:7, Romans 1:9, Romans 1:9, Galatians 1:20

2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

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Philippians 3:18, Philippians 3:18, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Luke 19:41

3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

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Exodus 32:32, Exodus 32:32, Esther 8:6, Esther 8:6, Romans 11:14

4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 2:12, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:19, Romans 9:6

5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

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Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:19, Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:19, Romans 1:25

6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

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Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Galatians 6:16

7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

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Genesis 21:12, Genesis 21:12, Hebrews 11:18, Hebrews 11:18, John 8:37

8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

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John 1:13, John 1:13, Romans 4:11, Romans 4:16, Romans 4:11

9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

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Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 17:21

10Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

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Genesis 25:21, Genesis 25:23, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 25:23, Luke 16:26

11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

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2 Timothy 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:9, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:4

12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

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Genesis 25:22, Genesis 25:23, Genesis 25:22, Genesis 25:23, 1 Kings 22:47

13Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, Genesis 29:31

14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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2 Chronicles 19:7, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Psalms 145:17, Psalms 145:17, Deuteronomy 32:4

15For he said 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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Exodus 33:19, Exodus 33:19, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:19, Romans 9:16

16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

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Ephesians 2:8, Ephesians 2:8, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 11:26, Matthew 11:25

17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

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Exodus 9:16, Exodus 9:16, Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, Exodus 14:17

18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

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Joshua 11:20, Joshua 11:20, Romans 9:15, Romans 9:16, Exodus 4:21

19You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"

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Daniel 4:35, Daniel 4:35, 2 Chronicles 20:6, 2 Chronicles 20:6, 1 Corinthians 15:12

20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

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Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 29:16, Isaiah 45:9, Isaiah 45:11, Isaiah 45:9

21Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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Isaiah 64:8, Isaiah 64:8, 2 Timothy 2:20, 2 Timothy 2:21, 2 Timothy 2:20

22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

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Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:4, Romans 9:21

23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

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Romans 2:4, Romans 2:4, 1 Peter 1:2, 1 Peter 1:5, 1 Peter 1:2

24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

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Colossians 3:11, Colossians 3:11, Romans 10:12, Genesis 49:10, Ephesians 2:11

25As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

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Hosea 2:23, Hosea 2:23, 1 Peter 2:10, 1 Peter 2:10, Ezekiel 16:8

26"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

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Hosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, Hosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, 1 John 3:1

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

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Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 10:23, Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 10:23, Romans 11:4

28for the Lord will fulfill his word completely and without delay upon the earth."

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Isaiah 10:23, Isaiah 10:23, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 30:14, Isaiah 30:12

29As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

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Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:9, James 5:4, Amos 4:11, Isaiah 13:19

30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

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Philippians 3:9, Philippians 3:9, Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:7, Romans 4:11

31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

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Romans 11:7, Romans 11:7, Romans 3:20, Romans 3:20, Galatians 5:3

32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

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1 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Peter 2:8, Luke 7:23, Romans 11:11

33even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock that will make them fall; and no one who believes in him will be put to shame."

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Isaiah 28:16, Isaiah 28:16, Romans 10:11, Romans 10:11, Joel 2:26