Romans 9

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 This is the truth and I am speaking in Christ, without pretence, as my conscience testifies for me in theHoly Spirit;	1 And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.
2 there is great sorrow and unremitting agony in my heart:	2 dummy verses inserted by amos
3 I could pray that I myself might be accursed and cut off from Christ, if this could benefit the brotherswho are my own flesh and blood.	3 dummy verses inserted by amos
4 They are Israelites; it was they who were adopted as children, the glory was theirs and the covenants;to them were given the Law and the worship of God and the promises.	4 dummy verses inserted by amos
5 To them belong the fathers and out of them, so far as physical descent is concerned, came Christ whois above al , God, blessed for ever. Amen.	5 dummy verses inserted by amos
6 It is not that God's promise has failed. Not all born Israelites belong to Israel,	6 dummy verses inserted by amos
7 and not all the descendants of Abraham count as his children, for Isaac is the one through whom yourName will be carried on.	7 dummy verses inserted by amos
8 That is, it is not by being children through physical descent that people become children of God; it isthe children of the promise that are counted as the heirs.	8 dummy verses inserted by amos
9 The actual words of the promise were: I shal come back to you at this season, and Sarah wil have ason.	9 dummy verses inserted by amos
10 Even more to the point is what was said to Rebecca when she was pregnant by our ancestor, Isaac,	10 dummy verses inserted by amos
11 before her children were born, so that neither had yet done anything either good or bad, but in orderthat it should be God's choice which prevailed	11 For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)
12 -not human merit, but his cal -- she was told: the elder one wil serve the younger.	12 Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.
13 Or as scripture says elsewhere: I loved Jacob but hated Esau.	13 As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
14 What should we say, then? That God is unjust? Out of the question!	14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.
15 For speaking to Moses, he said: I am gracious to those to whom I am gracious and I take pity onthose on whom I take pity.	15 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.
16 So it is not a matter of what any person wants or what any person does, but only of God havingmercy.	16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 Scripture says to Pharaoh: I raised you up for this reason, to display my power in you and to have myname talked of throughout the world.	17 For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
18 In other words, if God wants to show mercy on someone, he does so, and if he wants to hardensomeone's heart, he does so.	18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.
19 Then you wil ask me, 'How then can he ever blame anyone, since no one can oppose his wil ?'	19 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?
20 But you -- who do you think you, a human being, are, to answer back to God? Something that wasmade, can it say to its maker: why did you make me this shape?	20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?
21 A potter surely has the right over his clay to make out of the same lump either a pot for special use orone for ordinary use.	21 Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 But suppose that God, although all the time he wanted to reveal his retribution and demonstrate hispower, has with great patience gone on putting up with those who are the instruments of his retribution anddesigned to be destroyed;	22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,
23 so that he may make known the glorious riches ready for the people who are the instruments of hisfaithful love and were long ago prepared for that glory.	23 That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?
24 We are that people, cal ed by him not only out of the Jews but out of the gentiles too.	24 Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.
25 Just as he says in the book of Hosea: I shal tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people,'and I shall take pity on those on whom I had no pity.	25 As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.
26 And in the very place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' they wil be told that they are'children of the living God'.	26 And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.
27 And about Israel, this is what Isaiah cried out: Though the people of Israel are like the sand of thesea, only a remnant will be saved;	27 And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.
28 for without hesitation or delay the Lord wil execute his sentence on the earth.	28 For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.
29 As Isaiah foretold: Had the Lord Sabaoth not left us a few survivors, we should be like Sodom, weshould be the same as Gomorrah.	29 And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like unto Gomorrha.
30 What should we say, then? That the gentiles, although they were not looking for saving justice, foundit, and this was the saving justice that comes of faith;	30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.
31 while Israel, looking for saving justice by law-keeping, did not succeed in fulfilling the Law.	31 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.
32 And why? Because they were trying to find it in actions and not in faith, and so they stumbled over thestumbling-stone-	32 Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.
33 as it says in scripture: Now I am laying in Zion a stumbling-stone, a rock to trip people up; but he whorelies on this wil not be brought to disgrace.	33 As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.