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They are Israelites, adopted as God’s sons; the visible presence, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the Temple worship, and the promises, are their inheritance; (Romans 9, 4)
not all the posterity of Abraham are Abraham’s children; It is through Isaac, he was told, that thy posterity shall be traced. (Romans 9, 7)
That is to say, God’s sonship is not for all those who are Abraham’s children by natural descent; it is only the children given to him as the result of God’s promise that are to be counted as his posterity. (Romans 9, 8)
Tell me, then, has God disowned his people? That is not to be thought of. Why, I am an Israelite myself, descended from Abraham; Benjamin is my tribe. (Romans 11, 1)
and this shall be the fulfilment of my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.✻ (Romans 11, 27)
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descended from Abraham? So am I. (2 Corinthians 11, 22)
Remember how Abraham put his faith in God, and it was reckoned virtue in him.✻ (Galatians 3, 6)
You must recognize, then, that Abraham’s real children are the children of his faith. (Galatians 3, 7)
There is a passage in scripture which, long beforehand, brings to Abraham the good news, Through thee all the nations shall be blessed; and that passage looks forward to God’s justification of the Gentiles by faith.✻ (Galatians 3, 8)
It is those, then, who take their stand on faith that share the blessing Abraham’s faithfulness won. (Galatians 3, 9)
Thus, in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham was to be imparted to the Gentiles, so that we, through faith, might receive the promised gift of the Spirit. (Galatians 3, 14)
The promises you know of were made to Abraham and his offspring; (it does not, by the way, say, To thy descendants, as if it meant a number of people; it says, To thy offspring, in the singular, meaning Christ).✻ (Galatians 3, 16)
