Verse 17
Romans 9:17
Darby Translation
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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.
Original Language Text
greek
λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ ὅτι Εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου, καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.
English Translation
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this purpose I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
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Chapter 9 Context
1
I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
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that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
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for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to...
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who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, a...
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whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God (...
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Not however as though the word of God (Elohim) had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of I...
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nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to the...
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8
That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God (Elohim); bu...
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9
For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah...
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And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
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[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpos...
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12
it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:
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according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.
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14
What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God (Elohim)? Far be the thought.
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For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for wh...
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So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God (Elohim) that shews mercy.
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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], tha...
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So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
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19
Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?
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Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God (Elohim)? Shall the thing formed sa...
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Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, an...
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And if God (Elohim), minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-su...
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prep...
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us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?
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As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.
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And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they...
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But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of th...
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for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutt...
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And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as S...
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What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have att...
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But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.
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Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at th...
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according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he...
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