Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
Romans 9:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, *This one was born there.* Selah.
Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Avraham from these stones.
who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.