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God’s Sovereign Choice

Romans 9:6

In 9 translations

BSB
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
KJV
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
WEB
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
ASV
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
LSV
And it is not possible that the word of God has failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these of Israel;
YLT
And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;
DBY
Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;Elohim
DRC
Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel:
GNV
Notwithstanding it can not bee that the worde of God should take none effect: for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ. οὐ γὰρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, οὗτοι Ἰσραήλ·
RP2018
Οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ. Οὐ γὰρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, οὗτοι Ἰσραήλ·
TR-Boyd
Οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ. Οὐ γὰρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, οὗτοι Ἰσραήλ·
SCR1894
ουχ οιον δε οτι εκπεπτωκεν ο λογος του θεου ου γαρ παντες οι εξ ισραηλ ουτοι ισραηλ

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  • Romans 2:28–29A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written…
  • Galatians 6:16Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
  • Romans 11:1–2I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture…
  • Romans 4:12–16And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. For the promise to Abraham and his…
  • Romans 3:3What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
  • Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  • John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
  • Hebrews 6:17–18So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who…
  • Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
  • John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
  • 2 Timothy 2:13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
  • Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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