1 I am speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me

VERDAD digo en Cristo, no miento, dándome testimonio mi conciencia en el Espíritu Santo,

2 T hat I have bitter grief and incessant anguish in my heart.

Que tengo gran tristeza y continuo dolor en mi corazón.

3 F or I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off and banished from Christ for the sake of my brethren and instead of them, my natural kinsmen and my fellow countrymen.

Porque deseara yo mismo ser apartado de Cristo por mis hermanos, los que son mis parientes según la carne;

4 F or they are Israelites, and to them belong God’s adoption and the glorious Presence (Shekinah). With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them worship was revealed and promises announced.

Que son israelitas, de los cuales es la adopción, y la gloria, y el pacto, y la data de la ley, y el culto, y las promesas;

5 T o them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be).

Cuyos son los padres, y de los cuales es Cristo según la carne, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por los siglos. Amén.

6 H owever, it is not as though God’s Word had failed. For it is not everybody who is a descendant of Jacob (Israel) who belongs to Israel.

No empero que la palabra de Dios haya faltado: porque no todos los que son de Israel son Israelitas;

7 A nd they are not all the children of Abraham because they are by blood his descendants. No, Your descendants will be called and counted through the line of Isaac.

Ni por ser simiente de Abraham, son todos hijos; mas: En Isaac te será llamada simiente.

8 T hat is to say, it is not the children of the body who are made God’s children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted descendants.

Quiere decir: No los que son hijos de la carne, éstos son los hijos de Dios; mas los que son hijos de la promesa, son contados en la generación.

9 F or this is what the promise said, About this time will I return and Sarah shall have a son.

Porque la palabra de la promesa es esta: Como en este tiempo vendré, y tendrá Sara un hijo.

10 A nd not only that, but this too: Rebecca conceived by our forefather Isaac,

Y no sólo esto; mas también Rebeca concibiendo de uno, de Isaac nuestro padre,

11 A nd the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God’s purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls,

(Porque no siendo aún nacidos, ni habiendo hecho aún ni bien ni mal, para que el propósito de Dios conforme á la elección, no por las obras sino por el que llama, permaneciese;)

12 I t was said to her that the elder should serve the younger.

Le fué dicho que el mayor serviría al menor.

13 A s it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (held in relative disregard in comparison with My feeling for Jacob).

Como está escrito: A Jacob amé, mas á Esaú aborrecí.

14 W hat shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God’s part? Certainly not!

¿Pues qué diremos? ¿Que hay injusticia en Dios? En ninguna manera.

15 F or He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion.

Mas á Moisés dice: Tendré misericordia del que tendré misericordia, y me compadeceré del que me compadeceré.

16 S o then is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy.

Así que no es del que quiere, ni del que corre, sino de Dios que tiene misericordia.

17 F or the Scripture says to Pharaoh, I have raised you up for this very purpose of displaying My power in you, so that My name may be proclaimed the whole world over.

Porque la Escritura dice de Faraón: Que para esto mismo te he levantado, para mostrar en ti mi potencia, y que mi nombre sea anunciado por toda la tierra.

18 S o then He has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens (makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of) whomever He wills.

De manera que del que quiere tiene misericordia; y al que quiere, endurece.

19 Y ou will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us ? For who can resist and withstand His will?

Me dirás pues: ¿Por qué, pues, se enoja? porque ¿quién resistirá á su voluntad?

20 B ut who are you, a mere man, to criticize and contradict and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

Mas antes, oh hombre, ¿quién eres tú, para que alterques con Dios? Dirá el vaso de barro al que le labró: ¿Por qué me has hecho tal?

21 H as the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use?

¿O no tiene potestad el alfarero para hacer de la misma masa un vaso para honra, y otro para vergüenza?

22 W hat if God, although fully intending to show His wrath and to make known His power and authority, has tolerated with much patience the vessels (objects) of anger which are ripe for destruction?

¿Y qué, si Dios, queriendo mostrar la ira y hacer notoria su potencia, soportó con mucha mansedumbre los vasos de ira preparados para muerte,

23 A nd He thus purposes to make known and show the wealth of His glory in the vessels (objects) of His mercy which He has prepared beforehand for glory,

Y para hacer notorias las riquezas de su gloria, mostrólas para con los vasos de misericordia que él ha preparado para gloria;

24 E ven including ourselves whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles (heathen)?

Los cuales también ha llamado, es á saber, á nosotros, no sólo de los Judíos, mas también de los Gentiles?

25 J ust as He says in Hosea, Those who were not My people I will call My people, and her who was not beloved My beloved.

Como también en Oseas dice: Llamaré al que no era mi pueblo, pueblo mío; Y á la no amada, amada.

26 A nd it shall be that in the very place where it was said to them, You are not My people, they shall be called sons of the living God.

Y será, que en el lugar donde les fué dicho: Vosotros no sois pueblo mío: Allí serán llamados hijos del Dios viviente.

27 A nd Isaiah calls out (solemnly cries aloud) over Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant (a small part of them) will be saved '> from perdition, condemnation, judgment]!

También Isaías clama tocante á Israel: Si fuere el número de los hijos de Israel como la arena de la mar, las reliquias serán salvas:

28 F or the Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth, rigorously cutting it short in His justice.

Porque palabra consumadora y abreviadora en justicia, porque palabra abreviada, hará el Señor sobre la tierra.

29 I t is as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have fared like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah.

Y como antes dijo Isaías: Si el Señor de los ejércitos no nos hubiera dejado simiente, Como Sodoma habríamos venido á ser, y á Gomorra fuéramos semejantes.

30 W hat shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not follow after righteousness have attained it by faith,

¿Pues qué diremos? Que los Gentiles que no seguían justicia, han alcanzado la justicia, es á saber, la justicia que es por la fe;

31 W hereas Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law of righteousness (right standing with God), actually did not succeed in fulfilling the Law.

Mas Israel que seguía la ley de justicia, no ha llegado á la ley de justicia.

32 F or what reason? Because not through faith, relying on the merit of their works. They have stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.

¿Por qué? Porque la seguían no por fe, mas como por las obras de la ley: por lo cual tropezaron en la piedra de tropiezo,

33 A s it is written, Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone that will make men stumble, a Rock that will make them fall; but he who believes in Him shall not be put to shame nor be disappointed in his expectations.

Como está escrito: He aquí pongo en Sión piedra de tropiezo, y piedra de caída; Y aquel que creyere en ella, no será avergonzado.