28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.(A)

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28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

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28 Now (A)we, brethren, as Isaac was, are (B)children of promise.

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29 At that time the son born according to the flesh(A) persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.(B) It is the same now.

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29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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29 But, as (A)he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (B)even so it is now.

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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.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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(A)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, (B)“In Isaac your seed shall be called.”

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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)

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That is, They which 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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That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but (A)the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

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