Romans 9

¹I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

²That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart.

³For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁴Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises:

⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel:

⁷Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

⁸That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh, are the children of God; buy they, that are the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

⁹For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come; and Sara shall have a son.

¹⁰And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.

¹¹For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)

¹²Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.