Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Romans .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
Romans 9 : 15 - 29
Chapter 9
| 15 | For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."
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| 16 | So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
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| 17 | For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."
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| 18 | Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
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| 19 | You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"
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| 20 | But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"
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| 21 | Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
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| 22 | What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
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| 23 | and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
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| 24 | even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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| 25 | As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved."
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| 26 | "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, "You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."
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| 27 | Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.
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| 28 | For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
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| 29 | And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah."
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
