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Text -- Romans 9:20-33 (NET)
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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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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Predestination |
Rome |
Sin |
Romans, Epistle to the |
Gentiles |
Quotations and Allusions |
Salvation |
Call |
AMMI |
Sovereignty |
Prophecy |
Power |
Justification |
Faith |
Glory |
Clay |
INSPIRATION, 8-18 |
Presumption |
Gomorrah |
Infidelity |
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