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

⁶ Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel, ⁷ nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants." ⁸ That is to say, it is not his physical descendants who are children of God, but his descendants born in fulfilment of the promise who are considered his true posterity. ⁹ For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son." ¹⁰ And that is not all, for there was Rebecca too, when she was about to bear twin sons to our forefather Isaac. ¹¹ For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them, ¹² she was told, "The elder will be the younger's slave." ¹³ As the Scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."