Romans 9:11
(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to [divine] selection, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling),
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10And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one—our father Isaac
12it was said to her, “The greater will serve the less”;
Cross References
Isaiah 14:24YHWH of Hosts has sworn, saying, “As I thought—so has it not been? And as I counseled—it stands;
Isaiah 23:9YHWH of Hosts has counseled it, || To defile the excellence of all beauty, || To make light all the honored of earth.
Jeremiah 51:29And the land shakes, and it is pained, || For the purposes of YHWH have stood against Babylon, || To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
Romans 8:28And we have known that to those loving God all things work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
Ephesians 1:4according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all walked once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:7-14
The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 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. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. 10 And not only this; but when… Read the whole commentary →