These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Romans 9
Brit Hadashah 33 verses
- 1 I am telling you the as a Messiahian man—it is no falsehood, for my conscience enlightened, as it is, by the Holy adds its testimony to mine—
- 2 when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of .
- 3 For I could pray to be accursed from on behalf of my brethren, my human kinsfolk—for such the Israelites are.
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To them belongs recognition as Elohim’s sons, and they have His glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises.
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Ephesians 2:12 Psalm 147:19 Genesis 17:2 Exodus 4:22 Romans 9:6 1 Kings 8:11 Acts 2:39 Deuteronomy 7:6 Hebrews 9:1 Deuteronomy 14:1 Hebrews 9:3 Psalm 73:1 Nehemiah 9:13-14 Jeremiah 31:20 Numbers 7:89 John 1:47 Nehemiah 13:29 Exodus 40:34 Romans 8:15 Genesis 32:28 Psalm 89:34 Exodus 34:27 Isaiah 5:2 Genesis 17:10 Romans 3:2 Psalm 90:16 Deuteronomy 29:1 Ezekiel 20:11-12 Matthew 21:33 Luke 1:54-55 Hosea 11:1 Hebrews 6:13-17 Genesis 17:7 Hebrews 9:10 Acts 3:25-26 Isaiah 41:8 Isaiah 60:19 Exodus 24:7-8 Deuteronomy 31:16 Genesis 15:18 Exodus 19:3-6 Isaiah 46:3 Hebrews 8:6-10 Jeremiah 33:20-25 Exodus 12:25 Luke 1:69-75 Psalm 78:61 1 Samuel 4:21-22 John 1:17 Jeremiah 31:33 Psalm 63:2 Psalm 89:3 Deuteronomy 29:14 Acts 13:32-33 Jeremiah 31:9 -
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To them the Patriarchs belong, and from them in respect of His human lineage came the , who is exalted above all, blessed throughout the Ages. .
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Romans 1:25 John 1:1-3 Colossians 1:16-19 Psalm 103:19 Isaiah 7:14 Romans 10:12 Romans 11:28 Micah 5:2 2 Corinthians 11:31 John 10:30 Philippians 2:6-11 1 Timothy 3:16 Romans 1:3 Isaiah 11:1 1 John 5:20 Matthew 28:20 1 Corinthians 14:16 Isaiah 9:6-7 Psalm 41:13 1 Chronicles 16:36 Deuteronomy 27:15-26 1 Timothy 6:15 1 Kings 1:36 Psalm 72:19 Revelation 22:16 Psalm 45:6 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Luke 3:23-38 Revelation 1:18 Psalm 106:48 Psalm 89:52 Hebrews 1:8-13 Matthew 1:1-17 Jeremiah 28:6 Acts 20:28 2 Timothy 2:8 Matthew 6:13 Revelation 22:20 Revelation 5:14 Genesis 49:10 Genesis 12:3 Deuteronomy 10:15 - 6 Not however that Elohim’s has failed; for all who have sprung from do not count as ,
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nor because they are Abraham’s true children. But the promise was “Through shall your posterity be reckoned.”
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In other words, it is not the children by natural descent who count as Elohim’s children, but the children made such by the promise are regarded as Abraham’s posterity.
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For the words are the language of promise and run thus, “About this time next year I will come, and shall have a son.”
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Nor is that all: later on there was Rebecca too. She was soon to bear two children to her husband, our forefather —
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and even then, though they were not then born and had not done anything either good or evil, yet in order that Elohim’s electing purpose might not be frustrated, based, as it was, not on their actions but on the will of Him who called them, she was told,
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Romans 4:17 Ephesians 1:9-11 Revelation 17:14 1 Peter 5:10 2 Peter 1:10 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 Ephesians 1:4-5 2 Timothy 1:9 Psalm 51:5 Isaiah 14:24 Isaiah 23:9 Jeremiah 51:29 Isaiah 14:26-27 Romans 8:28-30 Ephesians 2:9 Romans 11:5-7 1 Thessalonians 2:12 Ephesians 3:11 1 Thessalonians 1:4 Titus 3:5 Ephesians 2:3 Isaiah 46:10-11 -
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“The elder of them will be bondservant to the younger.”
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This agrees with the other Scripture which says, “ I have loved, but I have hated.”
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- 14 What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in ?
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No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to , “Wherever I show it shall be nothing but , and wherever I show it shall be simply .”
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- 16 And from this we learn that everything is dependent not on man’s will or endeavour, but upon who has . For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,
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“It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high—that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth.”
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Exodus 9:16 Proverbs 16:4 John 17:26 Isaiah 10:5-6 Exodus 18:10-11 Romans 11:4 1 Samuel 4:8 Daniel 5:18-21 Psalm 83:17-18 Galatians 4:30 Exodus 15:14-15 Isaiah 45:1-3 1 Samuel 2:7-8 Joshua 9:9 Joshua 2:9-10 Isaiah 37:20 Daniel 4:22 Galatians 3:22 Esther 4:14 Exodus 14:17-18 Exodus 10:1-2 Galatians 3:8 Jeremiah 27:6-7 - 18 This is a proof that wherever He chooses He shows , and wherever he chooses He hardens the .
- 19 “Why then does still find fault?” you will ask; “for who is resisting His will?”
- 20 Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil against ? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it, “Why have you made me thus?”
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Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses?
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And what if , while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction,
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Proverbs 16:4 Jude 1:4 Romans 9:21 1 Peter 2:8 2 Timothy 2:20 Exodus 9:16 Romans 9:17 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Psalm 50:21-22 Ecclesiastes 8:11-12 Numbers 14:18 2 Peter 2:3 Psalm 90:11 Matthew 23:31-33 Genesis 15:16 1 Thessalonians 5:9 Romans 2:4-5 Numbers 14:11 Lamentations 3:22 1 Peter 3:20 Romans 1:18 Revelation 6:9-11 Revelation 6:16-17 2 Peter 3:8-9 2 Peter 2:9 2 Peter 3:15 -
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in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His whom He has prepared beforehand for ,
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Romans 2:4 Ephesians 3:16 1 Peter 1:2-5 2 Timothy 2:21 Ephesians 1:6-8 Romans 8:29 Ephesians 3:8 Colossians 1:12 Romans 5:20-21 1 Thessalonians 5:9 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 Ephesians 2:3-5 Colossians 1:27 Luke 1:17 Ephesians 1:18 1 Chronicles 29:18 Ephesians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 1:10-12 Ephesians 2:7 Titus 3:3-7 - 24 even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?
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So also in He says, “I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.
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And in the place where it was said to them, ‘No people of Mine are you,’ there shall they be called sons of the everliving .”
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- 27 And cries aloud concerning , “Though the number of the sons of be like the sands of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved;
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for the Lord will hold a reckoning upon the earth, making it efficacious and brief.”
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- 29 Even as says in an earlier place, “Were it not that the Lord, the of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah.”
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To what conclusion does this bring us? Why, that the Gentiles, who were not in pursuit of , have overtaken it—a , however, which arises from ;
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Hebrews 11:7 Philippians 3:9 Romans 4:11 Galatians 2:16 Romans 10:20 Romans 9:14 Romans 10:6 Romans 10:10 1 Peter 4:3 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 1 Timothy 6:11 Romans 3:5 Romans 4:22 Romans 4:9 Galatians 5:5 Ephesians 2:12 Galatians 3:8 Romans 3:21-22 Ephesians 4:17-19 Romans 1:17-32 Galatians 3:24 Isaiah 65:1-2 Romans 4:13 Proverbs 15:9 Isaiah 51:1 Romans 5:1 Proverbs 21:21 Romans 9:31 - 31 while the descendants of , who were in pursuit of a Law that could give , have not arrived at one.
- 32 And why? Because they were pursuing a which should arise not from , but from what they regarded as merit. They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way;
- 33 in agreement with the statement of Scripture, “See, I am placing on Mount a stone for people to stumble at, and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed.”