Romans 9:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ That is to say, it is not the children of the body [of Abraham] who are made God's children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted [as Abraham's true] descendants.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

Common English Bible

⁸ That means it isn’t the natural children who are God’s children, but it is the children from the promise who are counted as descendants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ In other words, those who are the sons of God are not those who are sons of the flesh, but those who are sons of the Promise; these are considered to be the offspring.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh, are the children of God; but they, that are the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

Romans 9:8 Cross References

Genesis 31:15

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

Psalm 22:30

A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

Psalm 87:6

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah

Matthew 3:9

and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

John 1:13

which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

Romans 8:19

For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

Deuteronomy 14:1

Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Hebrews 11:11

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: