{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:42:52.336Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":9,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who are Israelites; to whom <i>pertaineth</i> the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service <i>of God</i>, and the promises;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Whose <i>are</i> the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ <i>came</i>, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they <i>are</i> not all Israel, which are of Israel:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, <i>are they</i> all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these <i>are</i> not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For this <i>is</i> the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And not only <i>this</i>; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, <i>even</i> by our father Isaac;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"(For <i>the children</i> 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;)"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What shall we say then? <i>Is there</i> unrighteousness with God? God forbid."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"So then <i>it is</i> not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will <i>have mercy</i>, and whom he will he hardeneth."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed <i>it</i>, Why hast thou made me thus?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"<i>What</i> if God, willing to shew <i>his</i> wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> in the place where it was said unto them, Ye <i>are</i> not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For he will finish the work, and cut <i>it</i> short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Wherefore? Because <i>they sought it</i> not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 9 (KJV)","markdown":"[Romans 9](https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}