Romans 9

Question 1

For the L

Answer 1

For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
Romans 9:28

Question 2

For this w

Answer 2

For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
Romans 9:9

Question 3

ev

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even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9:24

Question 4

the p

Answer 4

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
Romans 9:4

Question 5

not b

Answer 5

not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:12

Question 6

and, “In the

Answer 6

and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Romans 9:26

Question 7

I h

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I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9:2

Question 8

Isai

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Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
Romans 9:27

Question 9

For he s

Answer 9

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 9:15

Question 10

As it is written: “S

Answer 10

As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
Romans 9:33

Question 11

What if G

Answer 11

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 9:22

Question 12

Why not? B

Answer 12

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
Romans 9:32

Question 13

Just as i

Answer 13

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

Romans 9:13

Question 14

Nor b

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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 9:7

Question 15

but the p

Answer 15

but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
Romans 9:31

Question 16

I s

Answer 16

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
Romans 9:1

Question 17

Therefore God h

Answer 17

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
Romans 9:18

Question 18

But who a

Answer 18

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 9:20

Question 19

Does

Answer 19

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 9:21

Question 20

It dies n

Answer 20

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
Romans 9:16

Question 21

For I cou

Answer 21

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race,
Romans 9:3

Question 22

As h

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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 9:25

Question 23

Theirs

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Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
Romans 9:5

Question 24

What if h

Answer 24

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 9:23

Question 25

Yet, b

Answer 25

Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
Romans 9:11

Question 26

Not only th

Answer 26

Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.
Romans 9:10

Question 27

One o

Answer 27

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
Romans 9:19

Question 28

It is j

Answer 28

It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”
Romans 9:29

Question 29

It is n

Answer 29

It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Romans 9:6

Question 30

In ot

Answer 30

In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
Romans 9:8

Question 31

FOr sc

Answer 31

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 9:17