Romans 9:8

New International Reader's Version

In other words, God’s children are not just in the family line of Abraham. Instead, they are the children God promised to him. They are the ones considered to be Abraham’s children.

Cross References

Genesis 31:15

Doesn’t our father think of us as outsiders? First he sold us. Now he has used up what he was paid for us.

Psalm 22:30

Those who are not yet born will serve him. Those who are born later will be told about the Lord.

Psalm 87:6

Here is what the Lord will write in his list of the nations. “Each of them was born in Zion.”

Matthew 3:9

Don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham even from these stones.

John 1:13

To be a child of God has nothing to do with human parents. Children of God are not born because of human choice or because a husband wants them to be born. They are born because of what God does.

Romans 8:14

Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself joins with our spirits. Together they tell us that we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

Everything God created looks forward to the future. That will be the time when his children appear in their full and final glory.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. Don’t cut yourselves to honor the dead. Don’t shave the front of your heads to honor the dead.

Hebrews 11:11

And Sarah had faith. So God made it possible for her to become a mother. She became a mother even though she was too old to have children. But Sarah believed that the God who made the promise was faithful.