1I am a follower of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is a witness to my conscience. So I tell the truth and I am not lying when I say
2my heart is broken and I am in great sorrow.
3I would gladly be placed under God's curse and be separated from Christ for the good of my own people.
4They are the descendants of Israel, and they are also God's chosen people. God showed them his glory. He made agreements with them and gave them his Law. The temple is theirs and so are the promises that God made to them. Amen.
6It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all the people of Israel are the true people of God.
7-8In fact, when God made the promise to Abraham, he meant only Abraham's descendants by his son Isaac. God was talking only about Isaac when he promised
10Don't forget what happened to the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah.
11-12Even before they were born or had done anything good or bad, the Lord told Rebekah that her elder son would serve the younger one. The Lord said this to show that he makes his own choices and that it wasn't because of anything either of them had done.
14Are we saying that God is unfair? Certainly not!
15The Lord told Moses that he has pity and mercy on anyone he wants to. of Egypt, “I let you become king, so that I could show you my power and be praised by all people on earth.”
“Although they are not
my people,
I will make them my people.
I will treat with love
those nations
that have never been loved.
26“Once they were told,
‘You are not my people.’
But in that very place
they will be called
children of the living God.”
27And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel,
“The people of Israel
are as many
as the grains of sand
along the beach.
But only a few who are left
will be saved.
28The Lord will be quick
and sure to do on earth
what he has warned
he will do.”
29Isaiah also said,
“If the Lord All-Powerful
had not spared some
of our descendants,
we would have been destroyed
like the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah.”Israel and the good news
30What does all this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith.
31-32It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,
33just as God says in the Scriptures,
“Look! I am placing in Zion
a stone to make people
stumble and fall.
But those who have faith
in that one will never
be disappointed.”
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