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

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

²that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

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

³For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, 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; whose is 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 is Christ as concerning the flesh, 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.

⁶But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

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

⁷neither, because they are Abraham's seed, 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, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

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

⁹For this is a word of promise, According to this season 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 so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--

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

¹¹for [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,

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.

¹³Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau 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 have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I 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 hath 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, 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.

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.

¹⁸So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be 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 still find fault? For who withstandeth 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 didst thou make 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?

²¹Or 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?

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 show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto 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 upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

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

²⁴[even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from 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 Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that 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 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.

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.

²⁷And 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:

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 the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

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

²⁹And, 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.

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, who followed not after righteousness, 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, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

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 works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

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.

³³even 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.

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