Romans 9:7-13 ▼

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.”