7. nor are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “It is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name.”
8. 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 descendants.
9. For this is the wording of the promise, “About this time I shall return and Sarah will have a son.”
10. And not only that, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one husband, our father Isaac—
11. before they had yet been born or had done anything, good or bad, in order that God’s elective plan might continue,
12. not by works but by his call—she was told, “The older shall serve the younger.”
13. As it is written:“I loved Jacobbut hated Esau.”
14. What then are we to say? Is there injustice on the part of God? Of course not!