Romans 9:14-33 — Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁴^aWhat shall we say then? ^bIs there any unrighteousness with God? ^cMay it never be! ¹⁵For He says to Moses, “^aI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ¹⁶So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who ^aruns, but on ^bGod who has mercy. ¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “^aFor this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed ¹throughout the whole earth.” ¹⁸So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He ^ahardens whom He desires.

¹⁹^aYou will say to me then, “^bWhy does He still find fault? For ^cwho resists His will?” ²⁰On the contrary, who are you, ^aO man, who ^banswers back to God? ^cWill the thing molded say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this”? ²¹Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel ¹for honorable use and another ²for dishonorable use? ²²And ¹what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much ^apatience vessels of wrath ^bhaving been prepared for destruction, ²³and in order that He might make known ^athe riches of His glory upon ^bvessels of mercy, which He ^cprepared beforehand for glory— ²⁴even us, whom He also ^acalled, ^bnot from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles? ²⁵As He says also in Hosea, “^aI will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”

²⁶“^aAnd 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 ^bthe living God.”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “^aThough the number of the sons of Israel be ^blike the sand of the sea, it is ^cthe remnant that will be saved; ²⁸^afor the Lord will execute His word on the land, ¹thoroughly and ²quickly.” ²⁹And just as Isaiah foretold, “^aUnless ^bthe Lord of ¹Sabaoth had left to us a seed,^cWe would have become like Sodom, and would have ²resembled Gomorrah.”

³⁰^aWhat shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, laid hold of righteousness, even ^bthe righteousness which is ¹by faith; ³¹but Israel, ^apursuing a law of righteousness, did not ^battain that law. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue it ¹by faith, but as though it were ²by works. They stumbled over ^athe stumbling stone, ³³just as it is written, “^aBehold, I am laying in Zion ^ba stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,^cAnd the one who believes upon Him ^dwill not be put to shame.”