I SAY the Truth in Mashiach, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Ruach Ha'Qodesh,
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Mashiach for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Who are Yashar'el; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the service of Elohiym, and the promises;
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Mashiach came, who is over all, Elohiym blessed forever. Amein.
Not as though the Word of Elohiym has taken no effect. For they are not all Yashar'el, which are of Yashar'el:
Neither, because they are the seed of Avraham, are they all children: but, In Yitschaq shall your seed be called.
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of Elohiym: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this; but when Rivqah also had conceived by one, even by our father Yitschaq;
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of Elohiym according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls;)
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Ya`aqov have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with Elohiym? Never.
For he says to Mosheh, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of Elohiym that shows mercy.
For the Scripture says unto Phar'oh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against Elohiym? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
What if Elohiym, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he has called, not of the Yahudiym only, but also of the other nations?
As he says also in Husha, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living Elohiym.
Yesha`yahu also cries concerning Yashar'el, Though the number of the children of Yashar'el be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will Yahuah make upon the earth.
And as Yesha`yahu said before, Except Yahuah Tseva'oth had left us a seed, we had been as Cedom, and been made like unto Amorah.
What shall we say then? That the other nations, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
But Yashar'el, which followed after the Torah of righteousness, has not attained to the Torah of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Torah. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Tsiyon a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.