1 I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience
bearing note me witness in the holy Ghost,
2 ) that I have
great grief and continual sorrow in my heart:
3 for I
could wish that I myself were made a curse note after the
manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according
to the flesh;
4 who are Israelites, whose is the adoption,
and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving
of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the
promises:
5 whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to
the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for
ever. Amen.
6 Not that the word of God hath failed. For they are
not all note Israel, who are descended from Israel.
7 Nor because
they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children
of promise: but “in Isaac shall thy seed be called.”
8 That is, not the children of the flesh are note the children
of God, but the children of the promise are accounted
for the seed.
9 For this is the word of the promise note,
“According to this time will I come, and Sarah shall
have a son:”
10 and not to her only; but Rebecca also
being with child by note our father Isaac,
11 (when the children
were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil,
that the purpose of God according to his choice might
abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,)
it was said to her, note the elder shall serve the younger:
12
as it is written note,
13 “I loved Jacob and I hated Esau.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God?
15 God forbid! noteFor He saith to Moses, note I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.”
16 So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that sheweth mercy.
17 noteAnd the scripture saith
unto Pharaoh, note for this very purpose have I raised thee
up, that I may shew forth my power in thee, and that
my name may be declared through all the earth.
18 So
then He hath mercy on whom He note pleaseth, and whom
He will, He hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then note, Why doth he yet blame us?
who note hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who
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art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing
formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou
make me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the
clay, out of the same mass to make one vessel to honor
and another to dishonor?
22 And what if God, though
note resolved to shew his note displeasure at last, and to make
known his power, yet bore with much long-suffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?
23 and that He
might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels
of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?
24 whom He
hath also called, even us, not only of the Jews, but
also of the Gentiles.
25 As He saith also in Hosea, note I
will call them my people, who were not my people, and
her beloved, who was not beloved.
26 And note in the place
where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there
shall they be called the note children of the living God.
27 And Esaias note crieth out concerning Israel, Though the
number of the note children of Israel be as the sand of the
sea, only a remnant shall be saved.
28 For in finishing the
account and cutting it short in righteousness, note the Lord
will make a short note work upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias
said before note, “Except the Lord of hosts had left us a
seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made
like unto Gomorrah.”
30 What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who
sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is by faith;
31 but
Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness,
hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?
32
because they sought it not by faith, but note by the works of
the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
33 as
it is written note, “Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling
and a rock of offence:” and again, “Whosoever
believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.”
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
