1I tell the truth in Christ—I am not lying—my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit
2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3For I could wish that I myself were cursed, cut off from Christ for the sake of my siblings, my relatives according to the flesh
4who are Israelites. To them belongs the adoption as children, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises.
5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them through the flesh is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all who are from Israel are truly Israel.
7Nor because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. Rather “your offspring will be counted as from Isaac.”
14What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
15For ʜᴇ says 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, ‘Y’all are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
27Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
“Though the number of the children of Israel are like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved,
28because the Lord will execute ʜɪꜱ word quickly and completely upon the earth.”
29As Isaiah has said before,
“Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed,
we would have become like Sodom,
and would have been made to resemble Gomorrah.”
30What should we say then? That the ethnic groups, who didn’t pursue righteousness, have taken hold of righteousness, a righteousness that is by faith,
31but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.
32Why? Because they didn’t pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33even as it is written,
“Look, I am setting a stumbling stone and a rock of offense in Zion,
and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
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