Romans 9:6–18 · BSB
9:6
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
9:7
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
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9:8
So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
9:9
For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
9:10
Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
9:11
Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
9:12
not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
9:13
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
9:15
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
9:16
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
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