Romans 9:1-9 ▼

1 I am speaking a truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit?

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

3 (for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

4 who, indeed, are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

5 whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

7 neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

8 That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

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