Genesis 17:7

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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

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He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

What I mean is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

What I mean is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call to himself."

nor are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but, "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."