Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection

¹ I am telling the truth in Christ ??it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit ² when I say that I am in sore pain. I suffer endless anguish of heart. ³ I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen; ⁴ for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises; ⁵ the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

⁶ It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel; ⁷ they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring. ⁹ For when God said, I will come about this time and Sara shall have a son, that was a word of promise. ¹⁰ And further, when Rebecca became pregnant by our father Isaac, though one man was the father of both children, ¹¹ and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does), ¹² she was told that the elder will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved but Esau I hated.