God

Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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.

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):

As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.

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

For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

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

For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.

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,

That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.

As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.

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.

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

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.