Romans 9:1-13 - Israel's Rejection
1 I am speaking a truth in Christ?? am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit??2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart 3 (for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh; 4 who, indeed, are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises; 5 whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel; 7 neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called." 8 That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. 9 For the word of the promise is this: "At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son." 10 And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac 11 (for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth), 12 it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." 13 Even as it has been written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."