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 \v 2 that for me there is great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
 
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-\v 3 For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race according to the flesh.
-\v 4 They are Israelites. They have adoption, the glory, the covenants, the gift of the law, the worship of God, and the promises.
-\v 5 Theirs are the ancestors from whom Christ has come with respect to the flesh—he who is God over all. May he be praised forever. Amen.
+\v 3 For I could wish that I myself would be cursed and set apart from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
+\v 4 They are Israelites. They have adoption, the glory, the covenants, the gift of the law, the ministry in the temple, and the promises.
+\v 5 Theirs are the patriarchs from whom Christ has come with respect to the flesh—he who is God over all. May he be praised forever. Amen.
 
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-\v 6 But it is not as though the promises of God have failed. For it is not everyone in Israel who truly belongs to Israel.
+\v 6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For it is not everyone in Israel who truly belongs to Israel.
 \v 7 Neither are all Abraham's descendants truly his children. But, "It is through Isaac that your descendants will be called."
 
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 \v 19 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who has ever withstood his will?"
 \v 20 On the contrary, man, who are you who answers against God? Will what has been molded say to the one who molds it, "Why did you make me this way?"
-\v 21 Does the potter not have the right over the clay to make from the same lump a container for special use, and another container for daily use?
+\v 21 Does the potter not have the right over the clay to make from the same lump a container for honorable use, and another container for dishonorable use?
 
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 \v 22 What if God, who is willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience containers of wrath prepared for destruction?
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 \q "Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, 
 \q it will be a remnant that will be saved,
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-\v 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth 
+\v 28 for the Lord will execute his word on the earth 
 \q completely and without delay."
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 \v 29 As Isaiah had said previously,
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 \v 30 What will we say then? That the Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, obtained righteousness, the righteousness by faith.
-\v 31 But Israel, who did pursue a law of righteousness, did not arrive at it.
+\v 31 But Israel, who did pursue a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
 
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-\v 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,
+\v 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,
 \v 33 as it has been written,
 \q "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.
 \q He who believes in it will not be ashamed."
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-\v 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my request to God is for them, for their salvation.
+\v 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my plea to God is for them, for their salvation.
 \v 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
 \v 3 For, failing to understand the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
 
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-\v 16 But not all of them obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what they have heard from us?"
+\v 16 But not all of them obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
 \v 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
 
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