| New International Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit-- | 1I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, |
| 2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. | 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. |
| 3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, | 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, |
| 4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. | 4who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, |
| 5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen. | 5whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. |
| 6It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. | 6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; |
| 7Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." | 7nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED." |
| 8In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. | 8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants. |
| 9For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son." | 9For this is the word of promise: "AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON." |
| 10Not only that, but Rebekah's children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. | 10And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; |
| 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God's purpose in election might stand: | 11for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, |
| 12not by works but by him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger." | 12it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER." |
| 13Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." | 13Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." |
| 14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! | 14What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! |
| 15For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." | 15For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." |
| 16It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy. | 16So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. |
| 17For Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." | 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." |
| 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. | 18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. |
| 19One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?" | 19You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" |
| 20But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" | 20On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? |
| 21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? | 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? |
| 22What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction? | 22What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? |
| 23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory-- | 23And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, |
| 24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? | 24even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. |
| 25As he says in Hosea: "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one," | 25As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'" |
| 26and, "In the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'children of the living God.'" | 26"AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." |
| 27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. | 27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; |
| 28For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality." | 28FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY." |
| 29It is just as Isaiah said previously: "Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah." | 29And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH." |
| 30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; | 30What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; |
| 31but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. | 31but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. |
| 32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. | 32Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, |
| 33As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame." | 33just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED." |
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