King James Version

Romans 9

Romans in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Greek, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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Open Romans 9:2

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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Open Romans 9:3

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Open Romans 9:4

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
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Translation Note
After τὸ κατὰ σάρκα the Greek continues ὁ ὢν ἐπὶ πάντων, θεὸς εὐλογητός. ὢν is a participle, nominative, singular, masculine, “the one who is.” θεός is nominative, singular, masculine. εὐλογητός is an adjective Dodson glosses, used of God, as “blessed (as entitled to receive blessing from man), worthy of praise.”
Ancient copies do not print the modern comma or period that decides where the sentence breaks. The King James Version keeps one sentence: “who is over all, God blessed for ever.” The New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible) starts a new sentence at “God, who is over all, be praised forever.” That break is an English decision about punctuation, not a different Greek word.
King James Version. Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible), this verse. “To them the forefathers belong, and from them the Christ descended according to the flesh. God, who is over all, be praised forever. Amen.” Watchtower Online Library

Open Romans 9:5

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
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Open Romans 9:6

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
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Open Romans 9:7

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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Open Romans 9:8

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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Open Romans 9:9

For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Open Romans 9:10

And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
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Open Romans 9:11

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
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Open Romans 9:12

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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Open Romans 9:13

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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Open Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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Open Romans 9:15

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
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Open Romans 9:16

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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Open Romans 9:17

For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
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Open Romans 9:18

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
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Open Romans 9:19

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
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Open Romans 9:20

Nay but, 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?
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Open Romans 9:21

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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Open Romans 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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Open Romans 9:23

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
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Open Romans 9:24

Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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Open Romans 9:25

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
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Open Romans 9:26

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
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Open Romans 9:27

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
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Open Romans 9:28

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
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Open Romans 9:29

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
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Open Romans 9:30

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
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Open Romans 9:31

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
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Open Romans 9:32

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
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Open Romans 9:33

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

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