¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

¹Kris ah thu taktak ka gen ahi, ka juau kei, kha Siangthou ah ka sia leh pha theihnain leng hontheihpiha,

²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

²Ka lungtang ah haksakna thupitak leh lunggaihna dai theilou ka pai ahi.

³For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

³Ka unaute sa lama ka chi pihte sikin, kei pen Kris kianga kipan hihtuam khop hialin hamse thuakin om hial leng ka chi ngala.

⁴Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

⁴Isreal mi ahi ngal ua; ta hihna bang, thupina bang, thukhun tengteng bang, dan piakna bang, Pathian nasepna bang, thuchiam tengteng bang, amaua ahi a;

⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁵Pipute leng amaua ahi ua, sa lam thu ah Kris leng amau laka kipan a hongpawt ahi a; amah thil tengteng tunga om, khantawn phat tuak Pathian ahi. Amen.

⁶Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

⁶Himahleh, Pathian thu bangmahlou banga omta ahi keia. Isreal suante Isreal mi ahi vek kei uhi;

⁷Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁷Abraham suante a hih jiak un a vek un a tate leng ahi kei uhi; Isaak ah na suante a kiminloh ding, chih ahi jaw hi.

⁸That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

⁸Huai tuh, sa tate Pathian tate ahi kei ua, thuchiam tate Abraham suana seh ahi jaw uh, chihna ahi.

⁹For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

⁹Thuchiam pen tuh hiai ahi: Tu hun bangin ka hong dia, Sarain ta a nei ding chih.

¹⁰And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

¹⁰Huai phet ahi kei Rebekain leng i pu Isaak laka nau a pai laiin,

¹¹(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

¹¹Naupangte a pian ma un, sia leh pha a hih ma un, thilhih jiak hilou in, a sampa deih jiak hi jawin, tel lam thu ah Pathian thu seh tuh a kip theihna dingin-a kiangah;

¹²It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹²A upa jawin a naupang jaw na a sem ding, Pathianin a chi ahi.

¹³As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

¹³Jakob ka it a, Esau jaw ka hua, chih gelh bangin.

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

¹⁴Bang I genta ding ua leh? Pathian ah diktatlouhna a om ahia?

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

¹⁵Om lou hial. Aman, Ka hehpih peuhmah ka hehpih dia, zah ka ngaihna tung peuhmah ah zah ka ngai ding, chiin, Mosi kiangah a genta ngal a.

¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

¹⁶Huaijiakin, a deihpa jiak ahi keia, a taipa jiak leng ahi sam keia, a hehpihpa Pathian jiak ahi jaw hi.

¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

¹⁷Laisiangthou in Pharo kiangah, Hiai jiak takin ka hontungding ahi, nanga ka thilhihtheihna ka taklat theihna ding leh, leitung tengtenga ka min a than theihna dingin, achi ngal a.

¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

¹⁸Huchiin, Pathianin a ut peuhpeuh a hehpiha, a ut peuhpeuh leng a genhak sak ahi.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

¹⁹Nou, ka kiangah, Bangdia hondem ahia? A deihlam kuan ahia kalh? Non chi ding uh a hih tuak.

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²⁰Ahi, himahleh, mihing aw, Pathian nial vialpa kua na hia leh? Thilsiamin, a siampa kiangah, Bang achia hichi banga honsiam? A chi dia hia?

²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

²¹Bellei tang khat apan bel khat kilawm taka, bel khat zatna niama zat ding a bawl din belvelpan bellei tungah thu a neikeia hia?

²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

²²Hehna bel mangthang dia kilawmte tunga, Pathianin a hehna leh a thilhihtheihna latsak uta, a thuakzoh teitei leh, bang a poi dia, huchia,

²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

²³Hehpihna bel, thupi dinga a nabawl kholhte tunga, a hehpihna hauhdan a latsak theihna dingin.

²⁴Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

²⁴Huaite tuh eite i hi-huai hehpihna belte Judate laka kipan kia hilou a, Jentelte laka kipana leng sapte.

²⁵As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

²⁵Hosia laibu ah, Ka mite hi ngei lou, ka mite, ka chi dia; huan, it ngei louhnu leng Itnu, ka chi ding.

²⁶And 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 God.

²⁶Huan hichi a honghi dia, a kiang ua, Ka mite na hi kei uh, chihna mun ah ngei Pathian hing tate sakin a om ding uh. chih gelh bangin.

²⁷Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

²⁷Isai in leng Isreal mite thu kikou pihin, Isreal mite jaw tuipi puiaunel zahin tam mahle uh, a gawt bang kia hotdamin a om ding uh.

²⁸For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁸Toupan kintaka hihzou vekin leitungah a gawt ding thu a tangtun dek ngala, a chi.

²⁹And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

²⁹Isai mahin, Mipite Toupan chi suah ding honna hawi saklou hileh Sodom khua bangin i naomta ding ua, Gomorra khua banga bawlin i naomta ding, chia a agen kholh bangin.

³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

³⁰Bang i genta dia leh? Jentel, diktatna delh louten, diktatna a naphata uh ahi, -ginna jiaka diktatna tuh.

³¹But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

³¹Isreal, diktatna dan delhten, diktatna dan pen a pha zouta kei uh.

³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

³²Bang hang ahia? Ginnain a delh kei ua, thilhiha muh theih bangin a delh jiak uh ahi. Pukna suangah a pukta ngal ua.Ngaiin, Zion ah kisuihna suang leh pukna suangpi ka koiha, kuapeuhmah amah gingta tuh a zahlak kei ding, chih gelh bangin.

³³As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

³³Ngaiin, Zion ah kisuihna suang leh pukna suangpi ka koiha, kuapeuhmah amah gingta tuh a zahlak kei ding, chih gelh bangin.