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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." 10 And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac 11 (for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth), 12 it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." 13 Even as it has been written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." Romans 9:7-13, Worrell New Testament. Public domain.
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