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Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God.

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.

For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] *thou* also wilt be cut away.

And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.

For the gifts and the calling of God [are] not subject to repentance.

For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;