Romans 9:6

However, it is not as though the Word of God has failed! For not all who have descended from Israel are ‘Israel’.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

In Context

5The patriarchs are theirs, and from them came the Christ (the physical part), who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.

7Neither are they all ‘children’ because they are Abraham's descendants; but, “in Isaac will your seed be called.”

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Cross References

John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and says about him, “ There, a genuine Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Romans 2:28Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something outward in the flesh;

Romans 4:12and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised.

Galatians 6:16Now as for those who conform to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

Hebrews 6:17similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath,

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:2-6

Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as… Read the whole commentary →

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