Romans 9:1-13 ▼

1 Truth I say in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

2 that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart—

3 for I was wishing, I myself, to be accursed from the Christ—for my brothers, my relatives, according to the flesh,

4 who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for all ages. Amen.

6 And it is not possible that the word of God has failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these of Israel;

7 nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but, “in Isaac will a seed be called to you”;

8 that is, the children of the flesh—these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

9 for the word of promise [is] this: “According to this time I will come, and there will be to Sarah a son.”

10 And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one—our father Isaac

11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to [divine] selection, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling),

12 it was said to her, “The greater will serve the less”;

13 according as it has been written: “Jacob I loved, and Esau I hated.”