The Koine Bible

I speak the truth in Christ; I do not lie, with my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

because I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart;

For I could wish to be accursed, myself, from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the law, the worship, and the promises,

Of whom are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are from Israel are Israel.

Not that all who are descended from Abraham are children, but: In Isaac your offspring will be called.

This means, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

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

Not only that, but also Rebecca, having one husband, our father Isaac.

For not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

Not from works but from the one calling it was said to her, The greater will serve the lesser.

As it is written: I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.

What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? By no means.

For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

So then it does not depend on the one who wants or the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, I have raised you up for this purpose, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed throughout all the earth.

So then, he has mercy on whom he wants, and he hardens whom he wants.

You will say to me then: Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

O human, then, who are you to answer back to God? Will the thing formed say to the one who formed it, Why did you make me like this?

Does the potter not have authority over the clay from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

But if God, willing to show his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles;

As also in Hosea he says, I will call not my people my people, and the not beloved beloved.

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

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: If the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.

For the Lord will complete the matter and cut it short on the earth.

And just as Isaiah said beforehand: If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and would have been made like Gomorrah.

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, a righteousness that is from faith.

But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not reach the law.

Why? Because not from faith but as from works; they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

As it is written: Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.