For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Romans 9:9 in context
Romans 9:6–12
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But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
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Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
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That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
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For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”†
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Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
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For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
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it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
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