Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit, ² that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. ³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the divine service, and the promises, ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

⁶ But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel, ⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah. ¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac ¹¹ (for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I regarded inferior.