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That is, it is not the children by human descent who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

for although they had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this"?

And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,' there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.'"

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them is for their salvation.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel?

just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."

For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God—if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these,

For God confined them all in disobedience, in order that he could have mercy on them all.