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Romans · read by Howard Barnes
35 verses, in order. Only the verses Howard read aloud are shown.
Romans 3
Romans 9
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I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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,Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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It is not as though God's word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Nor because they are Abraham's descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, "Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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For this is what the promise stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Not only that, but Rebecca's children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's plan of election might stand,Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, "The older will serve the younger."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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For He says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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So then, it does not depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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One of you will say to me, "Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?"Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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?"Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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?Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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?Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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As He says in Hosea: "I will call them 'My People' who are not My people, and I will call her 'My Beloved' who is not My beloved,"Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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.'"Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
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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."Read from KJV · Romans 9 Part A
Romans 10
Romans 11
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O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!Read from NKJV · Giving myself
Romans 12
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Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.Read from KJV · Giving myself
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.Read from NKJV · Giving myself