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

⁶ But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel, ⁷ nor are they all children of Abraham, because they are his descendants, but the promise was "In the line of Isaac your descendants will I be counted." ⁸ That is, it is not Abraham's natural descendants who are God's children, but those who are made children by the promise are counted his true descendants. ⁹ For this is the language of the promise, "About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son." ¹⁰ Not only that but this too: There was Rebecca who was impregnated by our forefather Isaac. ¹¹ For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them, ¹² she was told, "The elder will be a slave to the younger." ¹³ As the Scripture says, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."