Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose^(A)

^6 (B)But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For ^(C)they are not all Israel who are of Israel, ^7 (D)nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, ^(E)“In Isaac your seed shall be called.” ⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but ^(F)the children of the promise are counted as the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: ^(G)“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”

¹⁰ And not only this, but when ^(H)Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac ¹¹ (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of ^(I)Him who calls), ¹² it was said to her, ^(J)“The older shall serve the younger.” ¹³ As it is written, ^(K)“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”