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Romans 9:7 (NIV)

Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”

Romans 9:9 (NIV)

For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Romans 9:10 (NIV)

Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.

Romans 9:11 (NIV)

Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:

Romans 9:12 (NIV)

not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

Romans 9:13 (NIV)

Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Romans 9:14 (NIV)

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!

Romans 9:15 (NIV)

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:16 (NIV)

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 9:17 (NIV)

For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Romans 9:18 (NIV)

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Romans 9:19 (NIV)

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”

Romans 9:20 (NIV)

But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”

Romans 9:21 (NIV)

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Romans 9:22 (NIV)

What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?

Romans 9:23 (NIV)

What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—

Romans 9:24 (NIV)

even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9:25 (NIV)

As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”

Romans 11:22 (NIV)

Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Romans 11:23 (NIV)

And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

Romans 11:25 (NIV)

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,

Romans 11:26 (NIV)

and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

Romans 11:27 (NIV)

And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

Romans 11:28 (NIV)

As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,