Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection

¹ I say the truth in Christ, and lie not, in that whereof my conscience beareth me witness in the holy ghost, ² that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. ³ For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh: ⁴ Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises, ⁵ whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.

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."