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7 nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather |through Isaac will your descendants be counted.| 8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants. 9 For this is what the promise declared: |About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.| 10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac-- 11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)-- 12 it was said to her, |The older will serve the younger,| 13 just as it is written: |Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.| Romans 9:7-13, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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