Romans 9 - World Messianic Bible(WMB)

1 I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

7Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

12it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

15For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel,

“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,

it is the remnant who will be saved;

28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,

because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

29 As Isaiah has said before,

“Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed,

we would have become like Sodom,

and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

33even as it is written,

“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;

and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”