Part 9

45:008:037 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

45:008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

45:008:039 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

45:009:001 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

45:009:002 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

45:009:003 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

45:009:004 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

45:009:005 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

45:009:006 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

45:009:007 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

45:009:008 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

45:009:009 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

45:009:010 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

45:009:011 (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;)

45:009:012 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

45:009:013 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

45:009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

45:009:015 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.

45:009:016 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

45:009:017 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.

45:009:018 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

45:009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

45:009:020 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

45:009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

45:009:022 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

45:009:023 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

45:009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

45:009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.