The Webster Bible WBT
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6 Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?
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It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”
8 That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
9 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
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For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac,
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Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.
11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)
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Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
12 It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? By no means.
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
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For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then, [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
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It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
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