Romans 9:10

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Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–

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  • Rom 5:3 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
  • Rom 5:11 : 11 Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
  • Gen 25:21-23 : 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD, 23 and the LORD said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
  • Luke 16:26 : 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

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  • Rom 9:11-13
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    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

    12it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”

    13just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

  • Rom 9:6-9
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    6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

    7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

    9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

  • 19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • 34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • 28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

  • 28The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.

  • 19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Rom 4:16-19
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    16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

    17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

    18Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”

    19Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

  • 24When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • 2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

  • 21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

  • Gen 25:21-22
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    21Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

    22But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD,

  • 20By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

    3Abraham named his son– whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac.

  • 5(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

  • 15Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).

  • 12And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

  • 11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

  • 23(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

  • 1The Illustration of Justification What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

  • 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

  • 8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

  • 35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

  • 21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

  • Rom 4:9-10
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    9Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

    10How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

  • 9the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

  • 10For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

  • 10So she said to Abraham,“Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

  • 12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

  • 16the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!