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

⁶ It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel; ⁷ they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham's descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity. ⁹ For thus is the word of promise, According to this season I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son. ¹⁰ And not only so, but when Rebecca was pregnant by our forefather Isaac, though one man was the father of both children, ¹¹ and even though they were still unborn, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election, not of works, but of Him who called, 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.