"Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they {are} not all Israel, which are of Israel:" — Romans 9:6

Romans 9:6 · KJV

“Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they {are} not all Israel, which are of Israel:”

— Romans 9:6

Whose {are} the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ {came}, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Verse 7

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, {are they} all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Romans 9 — Context

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; {covenants: or, testaments}

Whose {are} the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ {came}, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they {are} not all Israel, which are of Israel:

Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, {are they} all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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.

Cross References

Romans 2:28-29

For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither {is that} circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Galatians 6:16

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace {be} on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Romans 11:1-2

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, {of} the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 3:3

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

Romans 4:12-16

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which {he had} being {yet} uncircumcised.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Numbers 23:19

God {is} not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do {it}? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper {in the thing} whereto I sent it.