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Notwithstanding, it cannot be that the word of God should take no effect. For not all are Israel who are of Israel.

Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But: “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”

That is, those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

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God’s Sovereign Choice

It is not as though God’s word(A) had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(B) Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[a](C) In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(D) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12