1I say the truth in Messiah (Christ), I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit),
2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Messiah (Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of Elohim (God), and the promises;
5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Messiah (Christ) came, who is over all, Elohim (God) blessed for ever. Amen.
6Not as though the word of Elohim (God) has taken none effect. For they are not all Yashar'el (Israel), which are of Yashar'el (Israel):
7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.
8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of Elohim (God): but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of Elohim (God) according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)
12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim (God)? Elohim (God) forbid.
15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runs, but of Elohim (God) that shows mercy.
17For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might shew my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20Nay but, O man, who are you that repliest against Elohim (God)? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22What if Elohim (God), willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24Even us, whom he has called, not of the Yahudim (Jews) only, but also of the Gentiles?
25As he says also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living Elohim (God).
27Esaias also cries concerning Yashar'el (Israel), Though the number of the children of Yashar'el (Israel) be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will Yahuah (Lord) make upon the earth.
29And as Esaias said before, Except Yahuah (Lord) of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31But Yashar'el (Israel), which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.