Are we not counted of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has quite devoured also our money.
Romans 9:8 - King James 2000 That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the descendants. 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. |
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has quite devoured also our money.
A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
The LORD shall count, when he registers the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
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, they are the sons of God.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.