1 T ruth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2 t hat I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3 f or I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

4 w ho are Israelites, whose the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

5 w hose the fathers, and of whom the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

6 A nd it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who of Israel are these Israel;

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7 n or because they are seed of Abraham all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 t hat is, the children of the flesh -- these not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

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.

9 f or the word of promise this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

10 A nd not only, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

11 ( for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

(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 calleth;)

12 ` The greater shall serve the less;'

it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

13 a ccording as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

14 W hat, then, shall we say? unrighteousness with God? let it not be!

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

15 f or to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 s o, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

17 f or the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

18 s o, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

19 T hou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

20 n ay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form, Why me didst thou make thus?

Nay but, 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 h ath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

22 A nd if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

23 a nd that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

24 n ot only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25 a s also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

26 a nd it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

27 A nd Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

28 f or a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

for he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

29 a nd according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

30 W hat, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that of faith,

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

31 a nd Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

32 w herefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

33 a ccording as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.