Romans 9:7

World English Bible (2000)

Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

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  • Gen 21:12 : 12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
  • Heb 11:18 : 18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
  • Luke 3:8 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
  • Luke 16:24-25 : 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
  • Luke 16:30 : 30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
  • John 8:37-39 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  • Gal 4:23 : 23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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  • Rom 9:8-12
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    89%

    8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

    10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

    11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

    12 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

  • Rom 9:6
    86%

    6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

  • Heb 11:18
    81%

    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Gal 3:7-9
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    80%

    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    77%

    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

    13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

  • Gal 4:28
    77%

    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

  • Matt 3:9
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    9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  • Gal 3:16
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    16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

  • Gen 17:19
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    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Rom 9:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

    27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

  • Rom 4:16-17
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    16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

    18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Gen 15:3-5
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    3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

    4 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

    5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

  • 1 Chr 1:28
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    28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

  • Gen 17:9
    73%

    9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    72%

    34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Ps 105:6
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    6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

  • Rom 4:13
    72%

    13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • John 8:39
    72%

    39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

  • Isa 61:9
    71%

    9 Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed."

  • Hos 1:10
    71%

    10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

  • Gen 17:5-6
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    71%

    5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

  • Gen 26:4
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    4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

  • Acts 7:8
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    8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

  • Luke 3:8
    71%

    8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

  • Gen 28:14
    71%

    14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • Gen 21:10
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    10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

  • Heb 7:6
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    6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Gen 17:21
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    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Gal 4:30
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    30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

  • Gen 18:18
    70%

    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gal 4:22
    70%

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

  • Gen 25:19
    69%

    19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Acts 7:5
    69%

    5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.