¹¹ for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that the ^(A)purpose of God according to His choice would ^[a]stand, not ^[b]because of works but ^[c]because of Him who calls,

^17 [a]In the same way God, desiring even more to show to ^(A)the heirs of the promise ^(B)the unchangeableness of His purpose, guaranteed it with an oath,