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Romans 9 Berean Standard Bible
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1 I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
1 VERDAD digo en Cristo, no miento, dándome testimonio mi conciencia en el Espíritu Santo,
2 I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
2 Que tengo gran tristeza y continuo dolor en mi corazón.
3 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,
3 Porque deseara yo mismo ser apartado de Cristo por mis hermanos, los que son mis parientes según la carne;
4 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.
4 Que son israelitas, de los cuales es la adopción, y la gloria, y el pacto, y la data de la ley, y el culto, y las promesas;
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
5 Cuyos son los padres, y de los cuales es Cristo según la carne, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por los siglos. Amén.
6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
6 No empero que la palabra de Dios haya faltado: porque no todos los que son de Israel son Israelitas;
7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
7 Ni por ser simiente de Abraham, son todos hijos; mas: En Isaac te será llamada simiente.
8 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.
8 Quiere decir: No los que son hijos de la carne, éstos son los hijos de Dios; mas los que son hijos de la promesa, son contados en la generación.
9 For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
9 Porque la palabra de la promesa es esta: Como en este tiempo vendré, y tendrá Sara un hijo.
10 Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
10 Y no sólo esto; mas también Rebeca concibiendo de uno, de Isaac nuestro padre,
11 Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
11 (Porque no siendo aún nacidos, ni habiendo hecho aún ni bien ni mal, para que el propósito de Dios conforme á la elección, no por las obras sino por el que llama, permaneciese;)
12 not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
12 Le fué dicho que el mayor serviría al menor.
13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
13 Como está escrito: A Jacob amé, mas á Esaú aborrecí.
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
14 ¿Pues qué diremos? ¿Que hay injusticia en Dios? En ninguna manera.
15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
15 Mas á Moisés dice: Tendré misericordia del que tendré misericordia, y me compadeceré del que me compadeceré.
16 So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
16 Así que no es del que quiere, ni del que corre, sino de Dios que tiene misericordia.
17 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.”
17 Porque la Escritura dice de Faraón: Que para esto mismo te he levantado, para mostrar en ti mi potencia, y que mi nombre sea anunciado por toda la tierra.
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
18 De manera que del que quiere tiene misericordia; y al que quiere, endurece.
19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
19 Me dirás pues: ¿Por qué, pues, se enoja? porque ¿quién resistirá á su voluntad?
20 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?”
20 Mas antes, oh hombre, ¿quién eres tú, para que alterques con Dios? Dirá el vaso de barro al que le labró: ¿Por qué me has hecho tal?
21 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?
21 ¿O no tiene potestad el alfarero para hacer de la misma masa un vaso para honra, y otro para vergüenza?
22 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?
22 ¿Y qué, si Dios, queriendo mostrar la ira y hacer notoria su potencia, soportó con mucha mansedumbre los vasos de ira preparados para muerte,
23 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—
23 Y para hacer notorias las riquezas de su gloria, [mostrólas] para con los vasos de misericordia que él ha preparado para gloria;
24 including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
24 Los cuales también ha llamado, [es á saber], á nosotros, no sólo de los Judíos, mas también de los Gentiles?
25 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,”
25 Como también en Oseas dice: Llamaré al que no era mi pueblo, pueblo mío; y á la no amada, amada.
26 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.’”
26 Y será, que en el lugar donde les fué dicho: Vosotros no sois pueblo mío: allí serán llamados hijos del Dios viviente.
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
27 También Isaías clama tocante á Israel: Si fuere el número de los hijos de Israel como la arena de la mar, las reliquias serán salvas:
28 For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
28 Porque palabra consumadora y abreviadora en justicia, porque palabra abreviada, hará el Señor sobre la tierra.
29 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.”
29 Y como antes dijo Isaías: Si el Señor de los ejércitos no nos hubiera dejado simiente, como Sodoma habríamos venido á ser, y á Gomorra fuéramos semejantes.
30 What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
30 ¿Pues qué diremos? Que los Gentiles que no seguían justicia, han alcanzado la justicia, es á saber, la justicia que es por la fe;
31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
31 Mas Israel que seguía la ley de justicia, no ha llegado á la ley de justicia.
32 Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
32 ¿Por qué? Porque [la seguían] no por fe, mas como por las obras de la ley: por lo cual tropezaron en la piedra de tropiezo,
33 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.”
33 Como está escrito: He aquí pongo en Sión piedra de tropiezo, y piedra de caída; y aquel que creyere en ella, no será avergonzado.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timothy 2:7; Romans 1:9; Galatians 1:20; 2 Corinthians 11:10; Philippians 1:8
- 2 Philippians 3:18; Romans 10:1; Jeremiah 13:17; Psalm 119:136; Lamentations 3:51
- 3 Exodus 32:32; Esther 8:6; Romans 11:14; Galatians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 16:22
- 4 Ephesians 2:12; Psalm 147:19; Genesis 17:2; Romans 9:6; Acts 2:39
- 5 John 10:30; Colossians 1:16–19; John 1:1–3; Romans 1:25; 1 John 5:20
- 6 Romans 2:28–29; Galatians 6:16; Romans 11:1–2; Romans 4:12–16; Romans 3:3
- 7 Genesis 21:12; Hebrews 11:18; John 8:37–39; Galatians 4:23; Luke 3:8
- 8 John 1:13; Romans 4:11–16; Galatians 3:26–29; Romans 8:14; Galatians 4:22–31
- 9 Genesis 18:10; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 17:21; Hebrews 11:11–12; Genesis 21:2
- 10 Genesis 25:21–23; Luke 16:26; Romans 5:11; Romans 5:3
- 11 2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 1:4–5; 2 Peter 1:10; Romans 8:28–30; Ephesians 1:9–11
- 12 Genesis 25:22–23
- 13 Malachi 1:2–3
- 14 2 Chronicles 19:7; Psalm 145:17; Deuteronomy 32:4; Job 34:10–12; Psalm 92:15
- 15 Exodus 33:19; Romans 9:16; Micah 7:18; Romans 9:18–19; Exodus 34:6–7
- 16 Ephesians 2:8; Philippians 2:13; Matthew 11:25–26; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Ephesians 2:4–5
- 17 Exodus 9:16; Proverbs 16:4; Exodus 14:17–18; Exodus 10:1–2; John 17:26
- 18 Joshua 11:20; Exodus 4:21; Romans 9:15–16; Romans 11:7–8; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
- 19 Daniel 4:35; 2 Chronicles 20:6; 1 Corinthians 15:12; 1 Corinthians 15:35; Job 9:19
- 20 Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9–11; Isaiah 64:8; Job 33:13; Job 36:23
- 21 Isaiah 64:8; 2 Timothy 2:20–21; Proverbs 16:4; Jeremiah 18:3–6; Acts 9:15
- 22 Proverbs 16:4; Jude 4; Romans 9:21; 1 Peter 2:8; 2 Timothy 2:20
- 23 Romans 2:4; Colossians 1:27; 1 Peter 1:2–5; Ephesians 2:10; Romans 5:20–21
- 24 Colossians 3:11; Hebrews 3:1; Ephesians 3:6–8; Galatians 3:28; Romans 11:11–13
- 25 Hosea 2:23; 1 Peter 2:10; Ezekiel 16:8; John 16:27; Romans 1:7
- 26 Hosea 1:9–10; 1 John 3:1–3; Isaiah 43:6; Galatians 3:26; Romans 8:16
- 27 Isaiah 10:20–23; Romans 11:4–6; Isaiah 1:9; Hosea 1:10; Jeremiah 5:10
- 28 Isaiah 10:23; Acts 17:31; Psalm 9:8; Revelation 19:11; Isaiah 30:12–14
- 29 Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 13:19; James 5:4; Amos 4:11; Jeremiah 50:40
- 30 Philippians 3:9; Hebrews 11:7; Galatians 2:16; Romans 4:11; Galatians 5:5
- 31 Romans 11:7; Romans 3:20; James 2:10–11; Romans 10:2–4; Galatians 5:3–4
- 32 1 Corinthians 1:23; Luke 7:23; 1 Peter 2:8; Romans 11:11; Romans 4:16
- 33 Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 8:14–15; Romans 10:11; Joel 2:26–27; 1 Peter 2:6–8
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