Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
Romans 9:8 - 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. 更多版本King 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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. |
Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. [Selah
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.
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.
Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: