{"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/ylt/romans/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:13:42.030Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":9,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart — "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ — for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but — 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"that is, the children of the flesh — these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"for the word of promise is this; 'According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And not only so, but also Rebecca, having conceived by one — Isaac our father — "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"(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 — "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"'The greater shall serve the less;'"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"for to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"so, then — not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"for 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;'"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And 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,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"and 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 — "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people — My people; and her not beloved — Beloved,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"and it shall be — in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And 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;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"and 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.'"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"wherefore? because — not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"according 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.'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 9 (YLT)","markdown":"[Romans 9](https://primebible.com/ylt/romans/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/romans/9 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}