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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

But no, man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Yisra'el, that they may be saved.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Yeshua, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Yisra'elite, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.

God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Eliyah? How he pleads with God against Yisra'el:

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Ba`al."

According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.