Romans 9:6
Good News Translation
I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

New Revised Standard Version
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,

Contemporary English Version
It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.

New American Bible
But it is not that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

as though.

Romans 3:3 For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

Romans 11:1,2 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. . . .

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

Hebrews 6:17,18 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: . . .

they are not.

Romans 2:28,29 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. . . .

Romans 4:12-16 And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. . . .

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Galatians 6:16 And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy: and upon the Israel of God.

Context
God's Sovereign Choice
5Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel. 7Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.…
Cross References
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Romans 2:28
For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Galatians 6:16
And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy: and upon the Israel of God.

Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

Romans 9:5
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