Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection
1 I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart. 3 For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
6 Not however that the Word of God has failed, for not all those of Israel are Israel; 7 nor because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. But, "In Isaac shall your Seed be called." 8 That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed. 9 For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son." 10 And not only this, but when Rebekah also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac 11 (for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, 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."