1I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that

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

2I have great grief and unceasing anguish 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 to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as 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; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;

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

5whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

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

6Not as though the word of God hath failed; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel;

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

7nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, "Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac."

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

8That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.

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

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

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

10And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived by one man, our father Isaac,

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

11before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, to the end that God’s purpose according to election might stand, not depending on works, but on the will of him that calleth,

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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 shall serve the younger:"

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

13as 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 then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

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

15For he saith to Moses, "On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will 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 dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.

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

17For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known 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 hath mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will.

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

19Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?

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

20Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?

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

21Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use, and another for a dishonorable?

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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 endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, purposing to manifest his wrath and to make known his power;

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

23purposing also to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

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

24whom he also called, even us, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the gentiles?

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

25as he also saith in Hosea, "I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, that was not beloved.

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

26And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God."

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

27But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

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

28For he is accomplishing his word and speedily fulfilling it in righteousness; for a speedily fulfilled word will the Lord execute upon the earth."

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

29And as Isaiah hath said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah."

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

30What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

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

31while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.

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

32Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

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

33as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth in him shall not be put to shame."

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