로마서 9장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost)
- 2 that I haue greate heuynesse & contynuall sorowe in my hert.
- 3 I haue wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren, that are my kynsmen after the flesh,
- 4 which are off Israel: vnto whom pertayneth the childshippe, and the glory, and the couenauntes and lawe, and the seruyce of God, and the promyses:
- 5 whose are also the fathers, off whom (after the flesh) commeth Christ, which is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Ame.
- 6 But I speake not these thinges, as though the worde of God were of none effecte: for they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
- 7 nether are they all children, because they are the sede of Abraham: but in Isaac shal the sede be called
- 8 vnto the, that is, They which are children after the flesh, are not the children of God, but the children of the promes are counted for the sede.
- 9 For this is a worde of the promes, where he sayeth: Aboute this tyme wyl I come, and Sara shal haue a sonne.
- 10 Howbeit it is not so with this onely, but also whan Rebecca was with childe by one (namely by oure father Isaac)
- 11 or euer the childre were borne, & had done nether good ner bad (that the purpose of God might stode acordinge to the eleccion, not by the deseruynge of workes, but by the grace of the caller)
- 12 it was sayde thus vnto her: The greater shal serue the lesse.
- 13 As it is wrytten: Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated.
- 14 What shal we saye then? Is God then vnrighteous? God forbyd.
- 15 For he sayeth vnto Moses: I shewe mercy, to whom I shewe mercy: and haue copassion,
- 16 on who I haue compassion. So lyeth it not then in eny mans wyll or runnynge, but in the mercy of God.
- 17 For the scripture sayeth vnto Pharao: For this cause haue I stered the vp, euen to shewe my power on the, that my name mighte be declared in all lodes.
- 18 Thus hath he mercy on whom he wyl: and whom he wyl, he hardeneth.
- 19 Thou wilt saye then vnto me: Why blameth he vs yet? For who can resiste his will?
- 20 O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion?
- 21 Hath not the potter power, out of one lompe of claye to make one vessell vnto honoure, and another vnto dishonoure?
- 22 Therfore whan God wolde shewe wrath, and to make his power knowne, he broughte forth with greate pacience the vessels off wrath, which are ordeyned to damnacion:
- 23 that he mighte declare the riches off his glorye on ye vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared vnto glorye,
- 24 whom he hath called (namely vs) not onely of the Iewes, but also of the Gentyles.
- 25 As he sayeth also by Osee: I wil call that my people, which is not my people: and my beloued, which is not ye beloued.
- 26 And it shal come to passe in ye place, where it was sayde vnto them: Ye are not my people, there shal they be called the children of the lyuynge God.
- 27 But Esay crieth ouer Israel: Though the nombre of the children of Israel be as the sonde of the see, yet shal there but a remnaunt be saued.
- 28 For there is the worde, that fynisheth and shorteneth in righteousnes: for a shorte worde shal God make vpon earth.
- 29 And as Esay sayde before: Excepte the LORDE of Sabbaoth had lefte vs sede, we shulde haue bene as Sodoma, and like vnto Gomorra.
- 30 What shal we saye then? This wil we saye: The Heythen which folowed not righteousnes, haue ouertaken righteousnes: but I speake of the righteousnes that commeth of faith.
- 31 Agayne, Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes, and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes.
- 32 Why so? Euen because they soughte it not out of faith, but as it were out of the deseruynge of workes. For they haue stombled at the stomblinge stone.
- 33 As it is wrytten: Beholde, I laye in Sion a stone to stoble at, and a rocke to be offended at: and who so euer beleueth on him, shal not be confounded.