G2532–καί–kai

No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show compassion it shall be simply compassion."

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"It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high--that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My name may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth."

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And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction,

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in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory,

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even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?

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So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.

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And in the place where it was said to them, `No people of Mine are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving God."

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for the Lord will hold a reckoning upon the earth, making it efficacious and brief."

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Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."

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in agreement with the statement of Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a stone for people to stumble at, and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose faith rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed."

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Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.

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Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.

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But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--

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that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

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Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him for deliverance.

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But, I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed: "To the whole world the preachers' voices have sounded forth, and their words to the remotest parts of the earth."

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And Isaiah, with strange boldness, exclaims, "I have been found by those who were not looking for Me, I have revealed Myself to those who were not inquiring of Me."

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While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."

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I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

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"Lord, they have put Thy Prophets to death, and have overthrown Thy altars; and, now that I alone remain, they are thirsting for my blood"?

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In the same way also at the present time there has come to be a remnant whom God in His grace has selected.

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And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--even until now."

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And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

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Let darkness come over their eyes that they may be unable to see, and make Thou their backs continually to stoop."

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and if their lapse is the enriching of the world, and their overthrow the enriching of the Gentiles, will not still greater good follow their restoration?

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