Romans 9:7
nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
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- Gen 21:12 : 12 But 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.
- Heb 11:18 : 18 God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Luke 3:8 : 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
- Luke 16:24-25 : 24 So he called out,‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
- Luke 16:30 : 30 Then the rich man said,‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
- John 8:33 : 33 “We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied,“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,‘You will become free’?”
- John 8:37-39 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you. 38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!” 39 They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
- Gal 4:23 : 23 But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.
- Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
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- Rom 9:8-125 verses89%
8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
9 For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
11 even 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)–
12 it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”
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6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
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18 God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Gal 3:7-93 verses80%
7 so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”
9 So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.
- Gen 21:12-132 verses77%
12 But 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.
13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”
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28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
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25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham,‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’
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9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
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16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.
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19 God 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.
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29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.
- Rom 9:26-272 verses74%
26 “And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”
27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel,“Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,
- Rom 4:16-172 verses73%
16 For 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.
- Gen 22:17-182 verses73%
17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
- Gen 15:3-53 verses73%
3 Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
4 But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
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28 The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.
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9 Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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34 Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.
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6 O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!
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13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
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39 They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
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9 Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the LORD has blessed them.”
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10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
- Gen 17:5-62 verses71%
5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
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4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
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8 Then 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.
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8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
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14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
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10 So 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!”
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6 But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.
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4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
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30 But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
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18 After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.
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22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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19 Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.