Romains 9.5
English standard version

Israël et les non-Juifs dans le plan de Dieu

Israël et la promesse de Dieu

¹ I am speaking the truth in Christ&emdash;I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit&emdash;
² that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
⁴ They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
⁵ To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
⁶ But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
⁷ and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
⁸ This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
⁹ For this is what the promise said: About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.
¹⁰ And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
¹¹ though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad&emdash;in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls&emdash;
¹² she was told, The older will serve the younger.
¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!
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.
¹⁶ So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
¹⁸ So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
¹⁹ You will say to me then, Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?
²⁰ But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, Why have you made me like this?
²¹ Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
²³ in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory&emdash;
²⁴ even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea,
Those who were not my people I will call my people,
and her who was not beloved I will call beloved.
²⁶ And in the very place where it was said to them, You are not my people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.
²⁷ And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,
²⁸ for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.
²⁹ And as Isaiah predicted,
If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.

L’erreur d’Israël

³⁰ What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
³¹ but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
³² Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
³³ as it is written,
Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.