3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Compare verse7 commentaries
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Compare verse5 commentaries
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Compare verse13 commentaries
6 Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Compare verse4 commentaries
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called. Compare verse5 commentaries
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. Compare verse3 commentaries
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. Compare verse4 commentaries
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; Compare verse8 commentaries
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 calls;) Compare verse8 commentaries
15 For he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Compare verse7 commentaries
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. Compare verse7 commentaries
17 For the scripture said to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Compare verse8 commentaries
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens. Compare verse8 commentaries
19 You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will? Compare verse6 commentaries
20 No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? Compare verse11 commentaries
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor? Compare verse15 commentaries
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: Compare verse8 commentaries
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared to glory, Compare verse6 commentaries
25 As he said also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. Compare verse7 commentaries
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. Compare verse4 commentaries
27 Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: Compare verse7 commentaries
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make on the earth. Compare verse6 commentaries
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 to Gomorrha. Compare verse6 commentaries
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. Compare verse6 commentaries
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Compare verse5 commentaries
32 Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; Compare verse9 commentaries
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. Compare verse8 commentaries