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Romans 9:29 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.” "
Romans 9:29
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
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Romans 9:1
"I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit"
Romans 9:2
"that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart."
Romans 9:3
"For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh"
Romans 9:4
"who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;"
Romans 9:5
"of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen."
Romans 9:6
"But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel."
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