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Text -- Romans 9:1-33 (NET)
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Israel’s Rejection Considered
9:1 I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying !), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –
9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart .
9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people , my fellow countrymen ,
9:4 who are Israelites . To them belong the adoption as sons , the glory , the covenants , the giving of the law , the temple worship , and the promises .
9:5 To them belong the patriarchs , and from them , by human descent, came the Christ , who is God over all , blessed forever ! Amen .
9:6 It is not as though the word of God had failed . For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel ,
9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants ; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted .”
9:8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God ; rather , the children of promise are counted as descendants .
9:9 For this is what the promise declared : “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son .”
9:10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man , our ancestor Isaac –
9:11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand , not by works but by his calling )–
9:12 it was said to her , “The older will serve the younger ,”
9:13 just as it is written : “Jacob I loved , but Esau I hated .”
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God ? Absolutely not !
9:15 For he says to Moses : “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion .”
9:16 So then , it does not depend on human desire or exertion , but on God who shows mercy .
9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh : “For this very purpose I have raised you up , that I may demonstrate my power in you , and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth .”
9:18 So then , God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
9:19 You will say to me then , “Why does he still find fault ? For who has ever resisted his will ?”
9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God ? Does what is molded say to the molder , “Why have you made me like this ?”
9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use ?
9:22 But what if God , willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power , has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction ?
9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –
9:24 even us , whom he has called , not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles ?
9:25 As he also says in Hosea : “I will call those who were not my people , ‘My people ,’ and I will call her who was unloved , ‘My beloved .’”
9:26 “And in the very place where it was said to them , ‘You are not my people ,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God .’”
9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel , “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea , only the remnant will be saved ,
9:28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly .”
9:29 Just as Isaiah predicted , “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants , we would have become like Sodom , and we would have resembled Gomorrah .”
Israel’s Rejection Culpable
9:30 What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith ,
9:31 but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it .
9:32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works . They stumbled over the stumbling stone ,
9:33 just as it is written , “Look , I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame .”
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NET Notes -> Rom 9:1; Rom 9:1; Rom 9:2; Rom 9:3; Rom 9:3; Rom 9:3; Rom 9:4; Rom 9:4; Rom 9:4; Rom 9:5; Rom 9:5; Rom 9:5; Rom 9:5; Rom 9:5; Rom 9:6; Rom 9:7; Rom 9:7; Rom 9:8; Rom 9:8; Rom 9:8; Rom 9:9; Rom 9:9; Rom 9:9; Rom 9:10; Rom 9:11; Rom 9:11; Rom 9:11; Rom 9:11; Rom 9:12; Rom 9:12; Rom 9:13; Rom 9:15; Rom 9:16; Rom 9:16; Rom 9:17; Rom 9:17; Rom 9:18; Rom 9:18; Rom 9:18; Rom 9:20; Rom 9:20; Rom 9:20; Rom 9:21; Rom 9:21; Rom 9:22; Rom 9:22; Rom 9:22; Rom 9:23; Rom 9:25; Rom 9:25; Rom 9:26; Rom 9:26; Rom 9:27; Rom 9:28; Rom 9:28; Rom 9:28; Rom 9:29; Rom 9:29; Rom 9:29; Rom 9:31; Rom 9:31; Rom 9:31; Rom 9:32; Rom 9:32; Rom 9:32; Rom 9:32; Rom 9:33; Rom 9:33
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NET Notes: Rom 9:5 Or “the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever,” or “the Messiah. God who is over all be blessed forever!” or “the...
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NET Notes: Rom 9:10 Or possibly “by one act of sexual intercourse.” See D. Moo, Romans (NICNT), 579.
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NET Notes: Rom 9:16 Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”
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NET Notes: Rom 9:22 Or possibly “objects of wrath that have fit themselves for destruction.” The form of the participle could be taken either as a passive or ...
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NET Notes: Rom 9:28 A modified quotation from Isa 10:22-23. Since it is not exact, it has been printed as italics only.
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