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## Romans 9:3-8 in Context (Verses 1–11 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/romans/9/1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
 
 [2 ](/kjv/romans/9/2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/romans/9/3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
 
 [4 ](/kjv/romans/9/4) 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 ](/kjv/romans/9/5) Whose *are* the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ *came*, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/romans/9/6) Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they *are* not all Israel, which are of Israel:
 
 [7 ](/kjv/romans/9/7) Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, *are they* all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/romans/9/8) 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 ](/kjv/romans/9/9) For this *is* the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/romans/9/10) And not only *this*; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, *even* by our father Isaac;
 
 [11 ](/kjv/romans/9/11) (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;)
 
[Romans 8](/kjv/romans/8) [Romans 10](/kjv/romans/10)

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