# Romans 9

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit. [2] I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. [3] For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, [4] the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. [5] Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen. [6] It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. [7] Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.” [8] So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring. [9] For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” [10] Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. [11] Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand, [12] not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” [13] So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” [14] What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not! [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.” [16] So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. [17] For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” [18] Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. [19] One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” [20] But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?” [21] Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? [22] What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? [23] What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— [24] including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? [25] As He says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people,
and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,” [26] and,
“It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
they will be called
‘sons of the living God.’” [27] Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved. [28] For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth
thoroughly and decisively.” [29] It is just as Isaiah foretold:
“Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have resembled Gomorrah.” [30] What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; [31] but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. [32] Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, [33] as it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling
and a rock of offense;
and the one who believes in Him
will never be put to shame.”

## Places in this chapter

- **Sodom** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/sodom
- **Zion** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/zion
- **Gomorrah** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/gomorrah

## Each verse

- Romans 9:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/1
- Romans 9:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/2
- Romans 9:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/3
- Romans 9:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/4
- Romans 9:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/5
- Romans 9:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/6
- Romans 9:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/7
- Romans 9:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/8
- Romans 9:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/9
- Romans 9:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/10
- Romans 9:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/11
- Romans 9:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/12
- Romans 9:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/13
- Romans 9:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/14
- Romans 9:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/15
- Romans 9:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/16
- Romans 9:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/17
- Romans 9:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/18
- Romans 9:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/19
- Romans 9:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/20
- Romans 9:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/21
- Romans 9:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/22
- Romans 9:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/23
- Romans 9:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/24
- Romans 9:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/25
- Romans 9:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/26
- Romans 9:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/27
- Romans 9:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/28
- Romans 9:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/29
- Romans 9:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/30
- Romans 9:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/31
- Romans 9:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/32
- Romans 9:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/33