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Romans 9
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Israel’s Rejection of Christ

9 I speak the truth in Christ(A)—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit[a]— 2 that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. 3 For I could almost wish(B) to be cursed(C) and cut off[b] from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood. 4 They are Israelites,(D) and to them belong the adoption,(E) the glory,(F) the covenants,(G) the giving of the law,(H) the temple service,(I) and the promises.(J) 5 The ancestors are theirs,(K) and from them, by physical descent,[c] came the Messiah,(L) who is God(M) over all,(N) praised forever.[d](O) Amen.

God’s Gracious Election of Israel

6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed.(P) For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(Q) 7 Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants.[e](R) On the contrary, your offspring will be traced[f] through Isaac.(S)[g] 8 That is, it is not the children by physical descent[h] who are God’s children,(T) but the children of the promise(U) are considered to be the offspring. 9 For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.(V)[i] 10 And not only that,(W) but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant[j](X) by one man, our ancestor Isaac. 11 For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—(Y) 12 not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.(Z)[k] 13 As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.(AA)[l]

God’s Selection Is Just

14 What should we say then?(AB) Is there injustice with God?(AC) Absolutely not!(AD) 15 For He tells Moses:

I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.(AE)[m]

16 So then it does not depend on human will or effort[n](AF) but on God who shows mercy.(AG) 17 For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.(AH)[o]

18 So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.(AI)

19 You will say to me,(AJ) therefore, “Why then does He still find fault?(AK) For who can resist His will?”(AL) 20 But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God?(AM) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”(AN) 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay,(AO) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? 22 And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience(AP) objects of wrath ready for destruction?(AQ) 23 And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory(AR) on objects of mercy(AS) that He prepared beforehand for glory(AT)— 24 on us, the ones He also called,(AU) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(AV) 25 As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.(AW)[p]
26 And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.(AX)[q]

27 But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,(AY)
only the remnant will be saved;(AZ)
28 for the Lord will execute His sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.[r](BA)[s]

29 And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Hosts[t] had not left us offspring,(BB)
we would have become like Sodom,
and we would have been made like Gomorrah.(BC)[u]

Israel’s Present State

30 What should we say then?(BD) Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.(BE) 31 But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness,(BF) has not achieved the righteousness of the law.[v](BG) 32 Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.[w] They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(BH) 33 As it is written:

Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him(BI)
will not be put to shame.(BJ)[x]

Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:1 Or testifying with me by the Holy Spirit
  2. Romans 9:3 Lit were anathema
  3. Romans 9:5 Lit them, according to the flesh
  4. Romans 9:5 Or the Messiah, the One who is over all, the God who is blessed forever, or Messiah. God, who is over all, be blessed forever
  5. Romans 9:7 Lit seed
  6. Romans 9:7 Lit called
  7. Romans 9:7 Gn 21:12
  8. Romans 9:8 Lit children of the flesh
  9. Romans 9:9 Gn 18:10,14
  10. Romans 9:10 Or Rebekah conceived by the one act of sexual intercourse
  11. Romans 9:12 Gn 25:23
  12. Romans 9:13 Mal 1:2-3
  13. Romans 9:15 Ex 33:19
  14. Romans 9:16 Or on the one running; lit on the one willing
  15. Romans 9:17 Ex 9:16
  16. Romans 9:25 Hs 2:23
  17. Romans 9:26 Hs 1:10
  18. Romans 9:28 Or land
  19. Romans 9:28 Is 10:22-23; 28:22; Hs 1:10
  20. Romans 9:29 Gk Sabaoth; this word is a transliteration of the Hb word for Hosts, or Armies.
  21. Romans 9:29 Is 1:9
  22. Romans 9:31 Other mss read the law for righteousness
  23. Romans 9:32 Other mss add of the law
  24. Romans 9:33 Is 8:14; 28:16
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Romarbrevet 9
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Guds löfte till Israels folk

9 Jag talar sanning i Kristus och ljuger inte. Mitt eget samvete och den heliga Anden försäkrar att det är så här: 2 Mitt hjärta är fyllt av sorg och ständig ångest. 3 Jag skulle önska att jag själv var fördömd och skild från Kristus, om det bara kunde hjälpa mina bröder, mina landsmän. 4 De är israeliter, de har fått rätten att bli hans barn och få del av hans härlighet. De har fått förbunden, lagen, tempeltjänsten och löftena. 5 De är ättlingar till våra förfäder[a], och från dem härstammar Kristus själv som människa, han som är över allting, Gud välsignad i evighet, amen.

6 Guds ord har ju inte blivit om intet. Israel[b] är nämligen inte alla som härstammar från Israel. 7 På samma sätt är inte alla Abrahams efterkommande hans barn. Det sägs ju: ”Det är bara Isaks efterkommande som ska räknas som dina ättlingar.”[c] 8 Det är, med andra ord, inte de barn som föds enligt naturens lagar som är Guds barn, utan de som är födda enligt löftet räknas som hans efterkommande. 9 Löftet var detta: ”Nästa år vid den här tiden kommer jag, och då ska Sara ha en son.”[d]

10 Men inte bara det, Rebecka fick två barn med en och samme man, vår far Isak. 11 Redan innan de hade gjort vare sig gott eller ont – för att Guds val skulle stå fast 12 och gärningar inte skulle betyda något, utan bara han som kallar – sades det till Rebecka: ”Den äldre ska tjäna den yngre.”[e] 13 Så är det också skrivet: ”Jag älskade Jakob men hatade Esau.”[f]

14 Men vad innebär då detta? Är Gud orättvis? Nej, naturligtvis inte! 15 Han säger ju till Mose:

”Jag ska förbarma mig över vem jag vill,
    och jag ska visa medlidande med vem jag vill.”[g]

16 Det beror inte på människans vilja eller strävan utan på Guds nåd.

17 I Skriften sägs det nämligen till farao:

”Jag har låtit dig uppstå just med avsikten
    att jag ville visa min makt genom dig,
för att mitt namn skulle bli förkunnat överallt på jorden.”[h]

18 Gud förbarmar sig alltså över vem han vill, och han gör hjärtat hårt hos vem han vill.[i]

Gud är fri att välja sitt folk

19 Nu kanske någon säger: ”Varför anklagar han oss då? Vem kan sätta sig upp mot hans vilja?”

20 Men vem tror du att du är som försöker kritisera Gud? Inte kan väl det skapade säga till den som har skapat det: ”Varför gjorde du mig så här?” 21 Har inte en krukmakare rätt att av samma lerklump göra en vacker prydnadskruka och en annan för vardagsbruk? 22 Då har väl Gud rätt att visa sin vrede och sin makt, men ändå tills vidare ha tålamod med dem som är bestämda till att gå under? 23 Och kanske ville han göra sin härlighet känd för dem som han i förväg har bestämt ska få del av hans barmhärtighet och härlighet? 24 Till det har han även kallat oss, både judar och andra folk.

25 Det sägs så här genom Hosea:

”De som inte var mitt folk, ska jag nu kalla mitt folk,
    och de som jag förut inte älskade, ska jag nu älska.”[j]

26 Och:

”Där det sades till dem:
    ’Ni är inte mitt folk’,
ska de kallas ’Den levande Gudens barn’.”[k]

27 Jesaja utropar om Israel:

”Även om israeliterna är talrika som havets sand,
    ska bara en rest av dem bli räddad,
28 för Herren ska döma alla människor,
    snabbt och en gång för alla.”[l]

29 Jesaja säger också på ett annat ställe:

”Om härskarornas[m] Herre inte hade lämnat någon avkomma åt oss,
    hade vi blivit som Sodom
    och skulle likna Gomorra.”[n]

Israels folk vägrar att tro

30 Vad ska vi då säga om detta? Jo, att människor från andra folk, som inte ens strävade efter rättfärdighet, nu har fått den, en rättfärdighet genom tro. 31 Men Israel, som strävade efter en rättfärdighet genom lagen, nådde ingen. 32 Varför? Därför att de inte strävade efter den genom tron utan genom gärningar. De har snubblat över den stötesten, 33 som Skriften talar om:

”Se! Jag lägger i Sion en stötesten
    och en klippa som man faller på.
Men den som tror på honom ska inte stå där med skam.”[o]

Footnotes

  1. 9:5 Jfr 1 Mos 32:27-28.
  2. 9:6 Jakob kallades också Israel. Jfr 1 Mos 32:27-28.
  3. 9:7 Se 1 Mos 21:12.
  4. 9:9 Se 1 Mos 18:10,14.
  5. 9:12 Se 1 Mos 25:23.
  6. 9:13 Se Mal 1:2-3.
  7. 9:15 Se 2 Mos 33:19.
  8. 9:17 Se 2 Mos 9:16.
  9. 9:18 Enligt Andra Moseboken var det Gud som gjorde faraos hjärta hårt, så att han kunde sända plågorna över Egypten.
  10. 9:25 Se Hos 2:23.
  11. 9:26 Se Hos 1:10.
  12. 9:28 Se Jes 10:22-23. Den grekiska översättningens formulering avviker i små detaljer från texten i Jesaja.
  13. 9:29 Det hebreiska ordet Sevaot , som kan översättas härskarorna, har i den grekiska texten inte översatts utan bara transkriberats Sabaot.
  14. 9:29 Se Jes 1:9.
  15. 9:33 Se Jes 8:14; 28:16.
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,(A) my conscience confirms(B) it through the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself(C) were cursed(D) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(E) those of my own race,(F) 4 the people of Israel.(G) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;(H) theirs the divine glory,(I) the covenants,(J) the receiving of the law,(K) the temple worship(L) and the promises.(M) 5 Theirs are the patriarchs,(N) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,(O) who is God over all,(P) forever praised![a](Q) Amen.

God’s Sovereign Choice

6 It is not as though God’s word(R) had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(S) 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b](T) 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(U) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(V) 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c](W)

10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(X) 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad(Y)—in order that God’s purpose(Z) in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d](AA) 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e](AB)

14 What then shall we say?(AC) Is God unjust? Not at all!(AD) 15 For he says to Moses,

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
    and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[f](AE)

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(AF) 17 For 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.”[g](AG) 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(AH)

19 One of you will say to me:(AI) “Then why does God still blame us?(AJ) For who is able to resist his will?”(AK) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(AL) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(AM) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h](AN) 21 Does 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?(AO)

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(AP) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(AQ) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(AR) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(AS)— 24 even us, whom he also called,(AT) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(AU) 25 As 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,”[i](AV)

26 and,

“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.’”[j](AW)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(AX)
    only the remnant will be saved.(AY)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[k](AZ)

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(BA)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[l](BB)

Israel’s Unbelief

30 What then shall we say?(BC) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;(BD) 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(BE) have not attained their goal.(BF) 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(BG) 33 As 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.”[m](BH)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
  2. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12
  3. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14
  4. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
  5. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
  6. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
  7. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
  8. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
  9. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  10. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  11. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
  12. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
  13. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16
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Israel’s Rejection of Christ

9 I (A)tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 (B)that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For (C)I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, (D)to whom pertain the adoption, (E)the glory, (F)the covenants, (G)the giving of the law, (H)the service of God, and (I)the promises; 5 (J)of whom are the fathers and from (K)whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, (L)who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose(M)

6 (N)But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For (O)they are not all Israel who are of Israel, 7 (P)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, (Q)“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” 8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but (R)the children of the promise are counted as the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise: (S)“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”

10 And not only this, but when (T)Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of (U)Him who calls), 12 it was said to her, (V)“The older shall serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (W)“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”

Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice

14 What shall we say then? (X)Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He says to Moses, (Y)“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17 For (Z)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, (AA)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He (AB)hardens.

19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For (AC)who has resisted His will?” 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (AD)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Does not the (AE)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make (AF)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering (AG)the vessels of wrath (AH)prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known (AI)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had (AJ)prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He (AK)called, (AL)not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25 As He says also in Hosea:

(AM)“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26 “And(AN) it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:

(AO)“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
(AP)The remnant will be saved.
28 For [b]He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
(AQ)Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

29 And as Isaiah said before:

(AR)“Unless the Lord of [c]Sabaoth had left us a seed,
(AS)We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Present Condition of Israel

30 What shall we say then? (AT)That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, (AU)even the righteousness of faith; 31 but Israel, (AV)pursuing the law of righteousness, (AW)has not attained to the law [d]of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, [e]by the works of the law. For (AX)they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33 As it is written:

(AY)“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
And (AZ)whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:3 Or relatives
  2. Romans 9:28 NU the Lord will finish the work and cut it short upon the earth
  3. Romans 9:29 Lit., in Heb., Hosts
  4. Romans 9:31 NU omits of righteousness
  5. Romans 9:32 NU by works, omitting of the law
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