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Romans 9:11

before her sons were born, and had not wrought good or evil, the (choice) of Aloha was (made) known before that it should remain: not by works, but by him who called:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

In Context

10And not this only, but also Raphka when with one, our father Ishok, she had association,

12for it was said, The elder shall be servant to the less;

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Cross References

Romans 8:28BUT we know that those who love Aloha, in every thing he helpeth them for good; them whom he set before that they might be called.

Ephesians 1:4as he before elected us in him, from before the foundations of the world, that we should be saints, and without blemish before him,

Ephesians 2:3in those works in which we also walked from the first in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of our flesh and of our mind, and were the sons of wrath fully as the rest.

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 →

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