MODERN LITERAL VERSION

9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience is testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
9:2 that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.
9:3 For* I was praying that I myself were accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh,
9:4 who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants* and the institution of the law and the divine service and the promises;
9:5 whose are the fathers and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all: God is gracious* forever. Amen.

9:6 But it is not such-as that the word of God has fallen short. For* they are not all Israel, (those who are from Israel);
9:7 nor, are they all children, because they are Abraham's seed, but, ‘In Isaac your seed will be called.' {Gen. 21:12}
9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted *for a seed.
9:9 For* this is the word of promise, ‘I will come according to this season and Sarah will have a son.' {Gen. 18:10}
9:10 Now not only so, but also Rebecca having impregnation out of one, our father Isaac;
9:11 for* the children not yet being born, neither practicing anything good or evil, that* the purpose of God according to his choosing might stand, not from works, but from him who is calling.
9:12 It was said to her, ‘The greater will serve* the inferior.' {Gen. 25:23}
9:13 Just-as it has been written, ‘Jacob I loved*, but Esau I hated.' {Mal. 1:2,3}

9:14 Then* what shall we say? There is not unrighteousness with God, is there? Let it not happen!
9:15 For* he says to Moses, ‘I will show-mercy on whomever I show-mercy and I will have pity on whomever I have pity.' {Ex. 33:19}
9:16 Then* consequently, it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of he who shows-mercy– God.
9:17 For* the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘I have lifted you up *for this same thing, *that I might show in you my power and *that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.' {Ex. 9:16}
9:18 Then* consequently, he shows-mercy on whom he wills and he hardens whom he wills.

9:19 Therefore you will say to me, Why is he still finding-fault? For* who is withstanding his will?
9:20 But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing will not say to him who molded it, why did you make* me so, will it?
9:21 Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make* out of the same batch one vessel *for honor and another *for dishonor?
9:22 But what if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carried us, vessels of wrath framed *for destruction, in much patience;
9:23 and that* he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand *for glory,
9:24 that is us, whom he also invited, not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

9:25 As he says also in Hosea, ‘I will call those who are not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.' {Ho. 2:23}
9:26 And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You* are not my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.' {Ho. 1:10}
9:27 Now Isaiah cries on behalf of Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
9:28 for* he is finishing and cutting-short the word in righteousness because having been cut-short, the Lord will make* the word upon the earth.' {Is. 10:22, 23}
9:29 And, as Isaiah has said before, ‘If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and would have been similar to Gomorrah.' {Is. 1:9}

9:30 Then* what shall we say? That the Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, grabbed righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.
9:31 But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because it was not from faith, but as it was from works of the law, for* they stumbled on the stone of stumbling;
9:33 just-as it has been written, ‘Behold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.' {Is. 8:14 & 28:16}