The Strand Study Bible

Written From Corinth During Paul’s Third Missionary Journey

ROMANS 9:10 - 10:5

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have a son. 10 And 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 God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, 1 The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, 2 Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, 3 I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, 4 nor of him that runneth, 5 but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, 6 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. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he 7 hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath re- sisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that re- pliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not 8 the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, en- dured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As he saith also in Osee, 9 I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

26 10 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, 11 Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 11 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. 29 And as Esaias said before, 12 Except the LORD OF SABAOTH had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after 13 righ- teousness, have attained to righteousness, 14 even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 15 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stum- bling 16 STONE ; 33 As it is written, 17 Behold, I lay in Sion 18 a stumbling 16 STONE and 19 ROCK of offence: and whosoever believeth on HIM shall not be ashamed. Romans 10 Paul’s prayer for the unsaved Jews Date Written - AD 57 1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righ- teousness, and going about to establish their own 20 righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 21 For Christ is the end of the law for 22 righteousness to every one that believeth. Salvation is free to all who call on CHRIST 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, 23 That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

1. Quoted from the OT - Gen 25:23 2. Quoted from the OT - Mal 1:2-3 3. Quoted from the OT - Exo 33:19 4. Psa 78:70 & II Tim 1:9 5. Psa 106:23 & Isa 49:1-2 & Jere 1:4-5 & Lk 1:13-16 & Gal 1:15-16 6. Quoted from the OT - Exo 9:16 7. Exo 4:21 8. or, “God” - Job 10:9 & Isa 29:16 & 45:9 & Jere 18:6 9. Quoted from the OT - Hos 2:23 (See - I Pet 2:10) 10. Quoted from the OT - Hos 1:10 11. Quoted from the OT - Isa 10:22-23 12. Quoted from the OT - Isa 1:9 13. or, “the O.T. law” - Gal 3:21-24 14. Rom 10:3-4 15. or, “why” 16. Psa 118:22 & Mt 21:42,44 & Acts 4:11 & I Pet 2:7-8 17. Quoted from OT - Isa 28:16 18. Quoted from the OT - Isa 8:14 19. I Cor 10:4 20. or, “self effort; good works” - Eph 2:8-9 & Phil 3:9 21. II Cor 3:14 & Gal 3:24 22. Isa 64:6 & Rom 3:10,21-31 & 4:1-8, 13,20-25 & 7:7-13 & 10:5-13 & II Cor 5:21 & Titus 3:5 & Gal 2:21 & 3:11,19-24 23. Quoted from the OT - Lev 18:5

9:15 Paul quoted Exodus 33:19 to show that even Moses had no effect whatsoever on the mercy or purpose of God.