¹I speak the truth in the Anointed One, I am not lying, while my conscience is bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

²that great grief is to me and unceasing sorrow in my heart.

³For I myself was wishing to be a curse, separated from the Anointed One for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

⁴who are Israelites, whose is the divine adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the lawgiving and the service and the promises,

⁵whose are the patriarchs, and from whom is the Anointed One according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever, Amen.

⁶But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel, these are Israel;

⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham are they all children, rather: In Isaac will offspring be named to you.

⁸That is, not the children of the flesh, these are the children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as offspring.

⁹For the word of the promise is this: At this appointed-time I will come, and there will be a son to Sarah.

¹⁰And not only so, but also Rebecca, having conception by one, Isaac our father;

¹¹for, not yet having been born nor having done anything good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to election may stand,

¹²not of works but of the One calling, it was said to her: The older will serve the younger;

¹³even as it has been written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

¹⁴What then will we say? Is there injustice with God? Never would it be!

¹⁵For to Moses He says: I will show mercy to whom I may show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I may have compassion.

¹⁶So then it is not of the one who is willing nor of the one who is running, but of God who is showing mercy.

¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very thing I have raised you up, so that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the land.

¹⁸So then He shows mercy to whom He wants, and whom He wants He hardens.

¹⁹You will say to me then: Why does He still find fault? For who has been resisting His purpose?

²⁰O man, but rather, who are you yourself who is answering against God? Will the thing formed not say to the One who formed it: Why did you make me like this?

²¹Or has the potter not authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel indeed unto honor and one however unto dishonor?

²²Now what if God, desiring to show the wrath and to make known His power, bore with much patience the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

²³also that He may make known the riches of His glory upon the vessels of compassion, which He prepared beforehand for glory?

²⁴even us, whom He has called, not only out from the Jews but also out from the nations,

²⁵as also in Hosea He says: I will call that which is not my people my people, and her who is not loved.

²⁶And it will happen that in the place where it was said to them: You yourselves are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God.

²⁷Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, only the vestige will be saved;

²⁸for the Lord, concluding the sentence and bringing it swiftly in righteousness, will perform the word brought swiftly upon the land.

²⁹And even as Isaiah has foretold: unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we should have become like Sodom and would have been made like Gomorrah.

³⁰What then will we say? That the nations, not pursuing righteousness, have grasped righteousness, the righteousness that is by trust;

³¹but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law of righteousness.

³²Because of why? Because it was not by trust but as by works of law; for they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

³³even as it has been written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and everyone who is trusting on Him will never be put to shame.