Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection

¹ I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit -- ² I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed -- cut off from Christ -- for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen, ⁴ who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. ⁵ To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

⁶ It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel, ⁷ nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather "through Isaac will your descendants be counted." ⁸ This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants. ⁹ For this is what the promise declared: "About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son." ¹⁰ Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac -- ¹¹ even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) -- ¹² it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger," ¹³ just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."