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Amen.", "citation": "Romans 9:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.", "citation": "Romans 9:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.", "citation": "Romans 9:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.", "citation": "Romans 9:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.", "citation": "Romans 9:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father.", "citation": "Romans 9:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "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):", "citation": "Romans 9:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.", "citation": "Romans 9:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.", "citation": "Romans 9:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!", "citation": "Romans 9:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "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.", "citation": "Romans 9:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.", "citation": "Romans 9:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "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.", "citation": "Romans 9:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.", "citation": "Romans 9:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?", "citation": "Romans 9:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "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?", "citation": "Romans 9:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?", "citation": "Romans 9:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,", "citation": "Romans 9:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?", "citation": "Romans 9:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.", "citation": "Romans 9:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "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.", "citation": "Romans 9:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "And it shalt 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.", "citation": "Romans 9:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.", "citation": "Romans 9:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.", "citation": "Romans 9:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.", "citation": "Romans 9:29 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 30, "text": "What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.", "citation": "Romans 9:30 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 31, "text": "But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.", "citation": "Romans 9:31 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 32, "text": "Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.", "citation": "Romans 9:32 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 33, "text": "As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.", "citation": "Romans 9:33 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }