Romans 9:6-13 - God's Gracious Election Of Israel

⁶ It is not possible that the word of God has failed; for they are not all Israel who are of Israel. ⁷ Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity. ⁹ For the word of the promise is this: At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁰ Not only so, but when Rebecca had conceived by one, even our father Isaac, ¹¹ (the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,) ¹² it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger; ¹³ as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.