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9:1
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我在基督里说真话，并不谎言，有我良心被圣灵感动，给我作见证；
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
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9:2
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我是大有忧愁，心里时常伤痛；
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that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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9:3
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为我弟兄，我骨肉之亲，就是自己被咒诅，与基督分离，我也愿意。
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For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren`s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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9:4
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他们是以色列人；那儿子的名分、荣耀、诸约、律法、礼仪、应许都是他们的。
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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
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9:5
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列祖就是他们的祖宗，按肉体说，基督也是从他们出来的，他是在万有之上，永远可称颂的神。阿们！
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whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
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9:6
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这不是说神的话落了空。因为从以色列生的不都是以色列人，
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But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
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9:7
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也不因为是亚伯拉罕的后裔就都作他的儿女；惟独「从以撒生的才要称为你的后裔。」
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neither, because they are Abraham`s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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9:8
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这就是说，肉身所生的儿女不是神的儿女，惟独那应许的儿女才算是后裔。
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That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.
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9:9
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因为所应许的话是这样说：「到明年这时候我要来，撒拉必生一个儿子。」
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For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
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9:10
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不但如此，还有利百加，既从一个人，就是从我们的祖宗以撒怀了孕，
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And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--
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9:11
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（双子还没有生下来，善恶还没有做出来，只因要显明神拣选人的旨意，不在乎人的行为，乃在乎召人的主。）
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for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
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9:12
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神就对利百加说：「将来大的要服事小的。」
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it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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9:13
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正如经上所记：雅各是我所爱的；以扫是我所恶的。
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Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
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9:14
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这样，我们可说什么呢？难道神有什么不公平吗？断乎没有！
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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9:15
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因他对摩西说：我要怜悯谁就怜悯谁，要恩待谁就恩待谁。
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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
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9:16
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据此看来，这不在乎那定意的，也不在乎那奔跑的，只在乎发怜悯的神。
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So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
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9:17
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因为经上有话向法老说：「我将你兴起来，特要在你身上彰显我的权能，并要使我的名传遍天下。」
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.
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9:18
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如此看来，神要怜悯谁就怜悯谁，要叫谁刚硬就叫谁刚硬。
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So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.
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9:19
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这样，你必对我说：「他为什么还指责人呢？有谁抗拒他的旨意呢？」
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?
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9:20
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你这个人哪，你是谁，竟敢向神强嘴呢？受造之物岂能对造他的说：「你为什么这样造我呢？
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
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9:21
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窑匠难道没有权柄从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿，又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿吗？
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Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
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9:22
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倘若神要显明他的忿怒，彰显他的权能，就多多忍耐宽容那可怒预备遭毁灭的器皿，
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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
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9:23
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又要将他丰盛的荣耀彰显在那蒙怜悯早预备得荣耀的器皿上。
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
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9:24
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这器皿就是我们被神所召的，不但是从犹太人中，也是从外邦人中。这有什么不可呢？
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[even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
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9:25
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就像神在何西阿书上说：那本来不是我子民的，我要称为「我的子民」；本来不是蒙爱的，我要称为「蒙爱的」。
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As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.
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9:26
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从前在什么地方对他们说：你们不是我的子民，将来就在那里称他们为「永生神的儿子」。
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And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.
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9:27
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以赛亚指着以色列人喊着说：「以色列人虽多如海沙，得救的不过是剩下的余数；
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And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
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9:28
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因为主要在世上施行他的话，叫他的话都成全，速速的完结。」
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for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
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9:29
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又如以赛亚先前说过：若不是万军之主给我们存留余种，我们早已像所多玛，蛾摩拉的样子了。
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And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.
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9:30
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这样，我们可说什么呢？那本来不追求义的外邦人反得了义，就是因信而得的义。
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
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9:31
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但以色列人追求律法的义，反得不着律法的义。
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but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.
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9:32
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这是什么缘故呢？是因为他们不凭着信心求，只凭着行为求，他们正跌在那绊脚石上。
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Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
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9:33
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就如经上所记：我在锡安放一块绊脚的石头，跌人的盘石；信靠他的人必不至于羞愧。
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even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
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