Romans 9 (NET)

Romans 9:1¹I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:7Rom 1:9Gal 1:202 Cor 11:10Phil 1:81 Thess 2:51 Tim 1:52 Cor 1:122 Cor 12:19Rom 8:16

Romans 9:2²I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:18Jer 13:17Lam 3:51Ps 119:136Rom 10:1Luke 19:41-44Ezek 9:4Jer 9:1Lam 3:48-491 Sam 15:35

Romans 9:3³For I could wish that I myself were accursed—cut off from Christ—for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:32Esth 8:6Rom 11:14Gal 3:101 Cor 16:221 Cor 12:31 Sam 14:241 Sam 14:44Acts 13:26Acts 7:23-26

Romans 9:4⁴who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:12Ps 147:19Gen 17:2Rom 9:6Acts 2:39Deut 7:6Exod 4:22Heb 9:11 Kgs 8:11Acts 3:25-26

Romans 9:5⁵To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:30Col 1:16-19John 1:1-3Rom 1:251 John 5:20Rom 1:31 Tim 3:16Phil 2:6-11Isa 11:1Isa 9:6-7

Romans 9:6⁶It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:16Rom 2:28-29Rom 11:1-2Rom 3:3Rom 4:12-16John 1:47Isa 55:11Matt 24:35Num 23:192 Tim 2:13

Romans 9:7⁷nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:12Heb 11:18John 8:37-39Gal 4:23Luke 3:8Phil 3:3John 8:33Luke 16:24-25Luke 16:30

Romans 9:8⁸This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:13Rom 4:11-16Gal 3:26-29Rom 8:14Gal 4:22-311 John 3:1-2Ps 87:6Gen 31:15Ps 22:30

Romans 9:9⁹For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:10Gen 18:14Gen 17:21Gen 21:2Heb 11:11-12Heb 11:17

Romans 9:10¹⁰Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:21-23Luke 16:26Rom 5:11Rom 5:3

Romans 9:11¹¹even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:9Eph 1:4-52 Pet 1:10Eph 1:9-11Rom 8:28-30Titus 3:51 Pet 5:102 Thess 2:13-14Isa 14:24Rev 17:14

Romans 9:12¹²it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:22-231 Kgs 22:472 Sam 8:14

Romans 9:13¹³just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 1:2-3

Romans 9:14¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 19:7Ps 145:17Deut 32:4Job 34:10-12Ps 92:15Rev 16:7Job 8:3Gen 18:25Jer 12:1Job 34:18-19

Romans 9:15¹⁵For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 33:19Rom 9:16Mic 7:18Rom 9:18-19Exod 34:6-7Isa 27:11

Romans 9:16¹⁶So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:8Matt 11:25-26Phil 2:131 Pet 2:9-10Eph 2:4-5Titus 3:3-51 Cor 1:26-31Rom 9:11Jas 1:18Luke 10:21

Romans 9:17¹⁷For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 9:16Prov 16:4Exod 10:1-2Exod 14:17-181 Sam 2:7-8Esth 4:14Exod 15:14-15Isa 37:20Isa 45:1-3John 17:26

Romans 9:18¹⁸So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:21Josh 11:20Rom 9:15-162 Thess 2:10-12Rom 11:7-8Deut 2:30Rom 5:20-21Acts 28:26-28Exod 7:13Isa 63:17

Romans 9:19¹⁹You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:352 Chr 20:61 Cor 15:121 Cor 15:35Gen 50:20Isa 10:6-7Isa 46:10-11Job 23:13-14Job 9:12-15Job 9:19

Romans 9:20²⁰But who indeed are you—a mere human being —to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this? ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 29:16Isa 45:9-11Isa 64:8Job 33:13Job 36:23Job 40:2Matt 20:151 Tim 6:5Job 16:31 Cor 1:20

Romans 9:21²¹Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 64:82 Tim 2:20-21Prov 16:4Jer 18:3-6Acts 9:15Rom 9:22-23Rom 9:11Rom 9:18Hos 8:8Jer 22:28

Romans 9:22²²But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 16:4Jude 1:41 Pet 2:8Rom 9:212 Tim 2:20Exod 9:161 Thess 2:16Rom 9:172 Pet 2:3Rom 2:4-5

Romans 9:23²³And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 2:41 Pet 1:2-5Col 1:27Eph 2:10Eph 3:16Rom 5:20-211 Chr 29:182 Tim 2:21Eph 1:18Eph 1:6-8

Romans 9:24²⁴even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:111 Cor 1:91 Pet 5:10Acts 13:47-48Acts 15:14Acts 21:17-20Eph 2:11-13Eph 3:6-8Gal 3:28Gen 49:10

Romans 9:25²⁵As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:231 Pet 2:10Ezek 16:8John 16:27Rom 1:7Hos 1:1-2

Romans 9:26²⁶“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 1:9-101 John 3:1-3Gal 3:26Isa 43:6Rom 8:162 Cor 6:18John 11:52Matt 16:16

Romans 9:27²⁷And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:20-23Rom 11:4-6Isa 1:9Hos 1:10Ezek 6:8Jer 5:10Isa 11:11Gen 22:17Isa 1:1Mic 5:3-8

Romans 9:28²⁸for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:23Acts 17:31Isa 30:12-14Ps 9:8Rev 19:11Dan 9:26-27Isa 28:22Isa 5:16Matt 24:21Ps 65:5

Romans 9:29²⁹Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:9Isa 13:19Amos 4:11Jas 5:4Jer 49:18Jer 50:402 Pet 2:6Deut 29:23Gen 19:24-25Jude 1:7

Romans 9:30³⁰What shall we say then?—that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:9Heb 11:7Gal 2:16Rom 4:11Gal 5:5Rom 10:20Eph 2:12Isa 51:1Rom 10:10Rom 10:6

Romans 9:31³¹but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:7Jas 2:10-11Rom 3:20Gal 5:3-4Rom 10:2-4Gal 3:10-11Gal 3:21Isa 51:1Phil 3:6Rom 4:14-15

Romans 9:32³²Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:23Luke 7:231 Pet 2:8Rom 11:11Rom 4:16Acts 16:30-34John 6:27-29Luke 2:34Matt 13:57Rom 10:3

Romans 9:33³³just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame. ”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:16Isa 8:14-15Rom 10:11Joel 2:26-271 Pet 2:6-8Ps 118:22Ps 25:2-3Rom 5:5Ps 25:201 John 2:28