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Dios oquintlapejpenij on yejhuan hebreos

Niquijtojticaj on tlen melahuac quen tlaneltocaquetl itech Cristo. Xnistlacati. Notlamachilis quiyecana on Espíritu Santo niman ijcon notlamachilis nechmachiltia ica niquijtohua on tlen melahuac. Nicpia sanoyej hueyi ajmantli niman nochipa ninoyolcocojticaj. Niman sa no nejhua nicnequisquia nicpolosia notemaquixtilis tla yejhua ica huelisquia quinmacasquia temaquixtilistli on yejhuan hebreos quen nejhua. Yejhuamej hualejtoquej itech Israel, niman Dios oquinselij quen iconehuan. Intzajlan onen Dios ican ihueyilis, niman oquinmacac on pactos niman itlanahuatilhuan. Yejhuamej quipiaj on tlanahuatijli yejhuan quintitia quen ijqui nonequi quimahuistilisquej Dios niman no oquiselijquej on tlen Dios oquinmelajcaijlij. Yejhuamej hualejtoquej intech on toachtojtajhuan. Niman Cristo ican itlalnacayo no hualejticaj intech on toachtojtajhuan. Yejhua, tej, Dios yejhuan nochi quinahuatia. Ma yejhua quiseli yectenehualistli para nochipa. Ma ijqui nochihua.

Dios oquijtoj ica quinmaquixtis iconehuan. Niman tla on hebreos xnochimej quipiaj temaquixtilistli, xquijtosnequi ica Dios xotenquis on tlen oquijtoj. Yej cuajli xmatican ica xnochimej yejhuan hualejtoquej itech Israel Dios quimpohua quen ihuejcaconehuan. No ijqui, tej, xnochimej yejhuan hualejtoquej itech Abraham nopohuaj quen ihuejcajconehuan, pampa Dios ijquin oquijlijca Abraham: “Nopohuaj mohuejcajconehuan san itech Isaac.” Ijcon, tej, tiquitaj ica xnochimej ihuejcaconehuan Abraham teconehuan itech Dios, pero san on coconej yejhuan tlacatij ipampa on tlen Dios otemelajcaijlij nopohuaj quen melahuac hualejtoquej itech Abraham. On tlen Dios oquimelajcaijlij Abraham sa no yejhua in: “Ijcuac yejcos on cuajli tonajli, nihuajlas, niman Sara quitlacatilis se conetzintli.”

10 Niman yejhua in xica nochi. On cohuatzitzintin iconehuan Rebeca san se tajtli quipiayaj yejhuan toachtojtajta itoca Isaac. 15 Dios oquijlij Moisés: “Niquicnelis on yejhuan nicnequis niquicnelis, niman nictlajsojtlas on yejhuan nicnequis nictlajsojtlas.” 16 Yejhua ica, tej, itetlajsojtlalis Dios xnoselia pampa se ijqui quinequi noso pampa se itlaj quichihua, yej noselia ipampa iteicnelilis Dios. 17 Ipan in Yectlajcuilojli Dios ijquin oquijlij on rey de Egipto: “Nejhua onimitztlalij tirrey, san para nihuelis nicpantlantis nopoder itechcopa on milagros yejhuan mopan nicchihuas. Niman ijquin nochimej quimatisquej aquin nejhua imanyan nochi in tlalticpactli.” 18 Tla ijcon, tej, Dios quicnelia on yejhuan quinequi quicnelis niman, quiyoltechicahua on yejhuan quinequi quiyoltechicahua.

19 Pero yacaj huelis ijquin nechijlis: “Tla ijcon, ¿tlica quitlajtlacoltia Dios on tlacatl? Xacaj huelis quixnamiquis on tlen Dios quinequi quichihuas. 20 Pero tejhuamej yejhuan san titlacamej, ¿aquin tejhuamej para ihuan Dios timocamatlanisquej? ¿Huelis on contli yejhuan tlachijchiutli ican soquitl quijlis on yejhuan oquichijchiu, “¿Tlica ijquin otinechchijchiu?” 21 On tlacatl yejhuan quichijchihua on contli yejhua quitocarohua quijtos tlinon quichijchihuas ica on soquitl. Sa no ica on soquitl yejhua quitlapejnenia para quichijchihua se contli yejhuan ipan camanaj xochitl niman ocse para ipan tlasoltemalo.

22 Para Dios quiteititis itlalhuel niman ipoder, yejhua oquimijyohuilijca on yejhuan quintocarohuaya quiselisquej icastigo. 23 Ijquin oquichiu para oquiteititij quen sanoyej hueyi on ihueyilis yejhuan otechmacac tejhuamej yejhuan otechicnelij. Ijcon otechmacac tejhuamej yejhuan otechachtojtlalij para ticselisquej on hueyilistli. 24 Yejhua ica Dios otechnotz. Sequimej tejhuamej tiquistoquej intzajlan on hebreos niman sequimej intzajlan on yejhuan xhebreos. 25 Ijquin quijtohua ipan on tlajcuilolamatl itoca Oseas:

On tlacamej yejhuan xnoyaxcahuan catcaj niquinnoyaxcatis. Niman on yejhuan xniquintlajsojtlaya niquintlajsojtlas. 26 Niman sa no ompa campa oquimijlijcaj: “Nemejhuamej xnennoyaxcahuan”, ompa quimijlisquej ica yejhuamej teconehuan itech Dios yejhuan nochipa nemi.

27 Pero inca on hebreos ijquin oquijtoj Isaías:
    “Masqui on yejhuan hualejtoquej itech on tajtli Israel sanoyej miyequej quen itlaj xajli yejhuan oncaj ijtic mar, san quesquimej maquisasquej,

28 pampa toTeco san isijcapan quincastigaros.”

29 No ijqui, tej, ye huejcahui oquijtoj Isaías:
    Tla toTeco yejhuan quinyecana on isoldados ne ilhuicac xquincahuilisquia on toachtojtajhuan quipiasquiaj inhuejcajconehuan, titocahuasquiaj quen on chanejquej ne huejhueyican Sodoma niman Gomorrra.

On hebreos xquiseliaj on cuajli tlajtojli de temaquixtilistli

30 ¿Quen ijqui, tej, tiquijtosquej? Tiquijtosquej ica aman Dios quinselia on yejhuan xhebreos itechcopa on intlaneltoc quen on yejhuan yolmelajquej, masqui nion siquiera quitejtemohuayaj quen ijqui Dios quinselis quen on yejhuan yolmelajquej. 31 On hebreos quitejtemohuayaj itechcopa on tlanahuatijli quen ijqui Dios quinselis quen on yejhuan yolmelajquej, pero yejhuamej xoquitlacamatquej nochi on tlen on tlanahuatijli tlanahuatia. 32 ¿Tlica xoquinextijquej? Xoquinextijquej pampa xoquitejtemojquej itechcopa on tlaneltoctli, yej oquitejtemojquej itechcopa on tetlacamatilistli yejhuan oquipialijquej on tlanahutijli. Yejhua ica onantiquisquej pampa Cristo quen itlaj tetl yejhuan tetlajtlacali. 33 Ijquin tlajcuilolnesticaj ipan in Yectlajcuilojli:

Xquita, ne campa itoca Sión nictlalia se tlacatl quen itlaj tetl yejhuan ica nantiquisalo niman quen itlaj tepetlatl yejhuan tetlajcali. Pero on yejhuan quineltocas xqueman quipinahuismatis.

Paul’s Anguish Over Israel

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying,(A) my conscience confirms(B) it through the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself(C) were cursed(D) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(E) those of my own race,(F) the people of Israel.(G) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;(H) theirs the divine glory,(I) the covenants,(J) the receiving of the law,(K) the temple worship(L) and the promises.(M) Theirs are the patriarchs,(N) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,(O) who is God over all,(P) forever praised![a](Q) Amen.

God’s Sovereign Choice

It is not as though God’s word(R) had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(S) Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b](T) In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(U) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(V) For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c](W)

10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(X) 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad(Y)—in order that God’s purpose(Z) in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d](AA) 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e](AB)

14 What then shall we say?(AC) Is God unjust? Not at all!(AD) 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.”[f](AE)

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(AF) 17 For 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.”[g](AG) 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(AH)

19 One of you will say to me:(AI) “Then why does God still blame us?(AJ) For who is able to resist his will?”(AK) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(AL) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(AM) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[h](AN) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(AO)

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(AP) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(AQ) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(AR) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(AS) 24 even us, whom he also called,(AT) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(AU) 25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[i](AV)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[j](AW)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(AX)
    only the remnant will be saved.(AY)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[k](AZ)

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(BA)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[l](BB)

Israel’s Unbelief

30 What then shall we say?(BC) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;(BD) 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(BE) have not attained their goal.(BF) 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(BG) 33 As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[m](BH)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:5 Or Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! Or Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!
  2. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12
  3. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14
  4. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
  5. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
  6. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
  7. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
  8. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
  9. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  10. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  11. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
  12. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9
  13. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14; 28:16