Romans 9:8 - Easy To Read Version

⁸ This means that not all of Abraham’s descendants are God’s true children. Abraham’s true children are those people that become God’s children because of the promise God made to Abraham.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 22:30

And in the future,\par our descendants will serve the Lord.\par People will tell about him forever.\par

Psalm 87:6

God keeps a list about all his people.\par God knows where each person was born.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [498]})\i0 \par

Matthew 3:9

And don’t think that you can boast and say to yourselves, ‘Abraham {\cf2\super [39]} is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children for Abraham from these rocks here.

John 1:13

These children were not born like little babies are born. They were not born from the wish or plan of a \{mother and\} father. These children were born from God.

Romans 8:14

The true children of God are those people that let God’s Spirit lead them.

Romans 8:16

And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

Hebrews 11:11

Abraham was too old to have children. And Sarah was not able to have children. But Abraham had faith in God, and so God made them able to have children. Abraham trusted God to do the things he promised.