1I speak the truth in Christ; I am…
2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in…
3For I could wish that I myself were…
4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption…
5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds…
6It is not as though God’s word has…
7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they…
8So it is not the children of the…
9For this is what the promise stated: “At…
10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived…
11Yet before the twins were born or had…
12not by works but by Him who calls,…
13So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but…
14What then shall we say? Is God unjust?…
15For He says to Moses: “I will have…
16So then, it does not depend on man’s…
17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised…
18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants…
19One of you will say to me, “Then…
20But who are you, O man, to talk…
21Does not the potter have the right to…
22What if God, intending to show His wrath…
23What if He did this to make the…
24including us, whom He has called not only…
25As He says in Hosea: “I will call…
26and, “It will happen that in the very…
27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number…
28For the Lord will carry out His sentence…
29It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the…
30What then will we say? That the Gentiles,…
31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness,…
32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by…
33as it is written: “See, I lay in…
