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Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand):

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!

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

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?

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

And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

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

For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel?

As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.