Paul’s Concern for the Jews 2 TNT that I have gret hevynes and continuall sorowe in my hert. BSB BSB: I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3 TNT For I have wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren and my kynsmen as pertayninge to the flesshe BSB BSB: For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
5 TNT whose also are the fathers and they of whome (as concernynge the flesshe) Christ came which is God over all thinges blessed for ever Amen. BSB BSB: Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
God’s Sovereign Choice (Genesis 25:19–28; Malachi 1:1–5)
6 TNT I speake not these thinges as though the wordes of god had take none effecte. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel: BSB BSB: It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 TNT nether are they all chyldren strayght waye because they are the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seede be called: BSB BSB: Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
8 TNT that is to saye they which are the chyldren of the flesshe are not the chyldren of god. But the chyldren of promes are counted the seede. BSB BSB: So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
9 TNT For this is a worde of promes aboute this tyme will I come and Sara shall have a sonne. BSB BSB: For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
10 TNT Nether was it so with her only: but also when Rebecca was with chylde by one I meane by oure father Isaac BSB BSB: Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
11 TNT yeer the chyldren were borne when they had nether done good nether bad: that the purpose of God which is by election myght stonde it was sayde vnto her not by the reason of workes but by grace of the caller: BSB BSB: Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
12 TNT the elder shall serve the yonger. BSB BSB: not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 TNT As it is written: Iacob he loved but Esau he hated. BSB BSB: So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 TNT What shall we saye then? is there eny vnrightewesses with God? God forbyd. BSB BSB: What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
15 TNT For he sayth to Moses: I will shewe mercye to who I shewe mercy: and will have compassion on whom I have compassion. BSB BSB: For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 TNT So lieth it not then in a mans will or cunnynge but in the mercye of god. BSB BSB: So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 TNT For the scripture sayth vnto Pharao: Even for this same purpose have I stered ye vp to shewe my power on ye and that my name myght be declared thorow out all the worlde. BSB BSB: For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 TNT So hath he mercye on whom he will and whom he will he maketh hearde herted. BSB BSB: Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
19 TNT Thou wilt saye then vnto me: why then blameth he vs yet? For who can resist his will? BSB BSB: One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
20 TNT But o man what arte thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke saye to the workeman: why hast thou made me on this fassion? BSB BSB: But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
21 TNT Hath not the potter power over the claye even of the same lompe to make one vessell vnto honoure and a nother vnto dishonoure? BSB BSB: Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
22 TNT Even so God willynge to shewe his wrath and to make his power knowen suffered with longe pacience the vessels of wrath ordeyned to damnacion BSB BSB: What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
23 TNT that he myght declare the ryches of his glory on the vessels of mercye which he had prepayred vnto glorie: BSB BSB: What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
24 TNT that is to saye vs which he called not of the Iewes only but also of the gentyls. BSB BSB: including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
26 TNT And it shall come to passe in the place where it was sayd vnto them ye are not my people: that there shalbe called the chyldren of the lyvynge God. BSB BSB: and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
27 TNT But Esaias cryeth concernynge Israel though the nomber of the chyldren of Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shall a remnaunt be saved. BSB BSB: Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 TNT He finyssheth the worde verely and maketh it short in ryghtwesses. For a short worde will god make on erth. BSB BSB: For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
29 TNT And as Esaias sayd before: Except the Lorde of sabaoth had left us seede we had bene made as Zodoma and had bene lykened to Gomorra. BSB BSB: It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Israel’s Unbelief 30 TNT What shall we saye then? We saye that the gentyls which followed not rightewesnes have overtaken rightewesnes: I meane the rightewesnes which cometh of fayth. BSB BSB: What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 TNT But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto the lawe of rightewesnes. BSB BSB: but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 TNT And wherfore? Because they sought it not by fath: but as it were by the workes of the lawe. For they have stombled at the stomblynge stone. BSB BSB: Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33 TNT As it is written: Beholde I put in Syon a stomblynge stone and a rocke which shall make men faule. And none that beleve on him shalbe a shamed. BSB BSB: as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
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