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| 1. | And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father. |
| 2. | Noah Webster Bible That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
| 3. | Noah Webster Bible For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
| 4. | Noah Webster Bible Who are Israelites; to whom pertain the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; |
| 5. | Noah Webster Bible Whose are the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. |
| 6. | Noah Webster Bible Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are descendants from Israel? |
| 7. | Noah Webster Bible Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. |
| 8. | Noah Webster Bible That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. |
| 9. | Noah Webster Bible For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. |
| 10. | Noah Webster Bible And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, |
| 11. | For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,) |
| 12. | Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger. |
| 13. | As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated. |
| 14. | What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid. |
| 15. | For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. |
| 16. | So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. |
| 17. | For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. |
| 18. | Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth. |
| 19. | Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will? |
| 20. | O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus? |
| 21. | Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
| 22. | What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, |
| 23. | That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory? |
| 24. | Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles. |
| 25. | As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy. |
| 26. | And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God. |
| 27. | And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. |
| 28. | For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. |
| 29. | And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like unto Gomorrha. |
| 30. | What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. |
| 31. | But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice. |
| 32. | Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. |
| 33. | As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded. |