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

⁶ I speak not these things as though the words of God had taken none effect. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel; ⁷ Neither are they all children straightway because they are the seed of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seed be called, ⁸ that is to say; They which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God. But the children of promise are counted the seed. ⁹ For this is a word of promise, "About this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son." ¹⁰ Neither was it so with her only: but also when Rebecca was with child by one, I mean by our father Isaac, ¹¹ yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad - that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand - it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller, ¹² "The elder shall serve the younger." ¹³ As it is written, "Jacob he loved, but Esau he hated."