nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but -- 'in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

that is, the children of the flesh -- these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: