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For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;

of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

Genesis 25:19-23">[xr] But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,

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

(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 Him who calls),

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

"And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,'You are not My people,'There they shall be called sons of the living God." Hosea 1:10 ">[fn]

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel [fn] is that they may be saved.

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