Add parallel Print Page Options

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants. For this is what the promise said, “About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son.” 10 And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

Read full chapter

In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(A) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(B) For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[a](C)

10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:9 Gen. 18:10,14