concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the posterity of David according to the flesh,

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

(the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,)