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.
KJV
τοῦτ’ ἔστιν, οὐ τὰ τέκνα τῆς σαρκὸς ταῦτα τέκνα τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας λογίζεται εἰς σπέρμα·
Greek NT
id est, non qui filii carnis, hi filii Dei : sed qui filii sunt promissionis, æstimantur in semine.
Vulgate
That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.
ASV
That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λογίζομαι
logizomai
verb · 40×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
σπέρμα
sperma
noun · 44×
τέκνον
teknon
noun · 99×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐπαγγελία
epaggelia
noun · 52×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210216.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 32.—Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of His Son in Sacrifice, and of Sarah’s Death. Among other things, of which it would take too long time to mention the whole, Abraham was tempted about the offering up of his well-beloved son Isaac, to prove his pious obedience, and so make it known to the world, not to God. Now every temptation…
Chapter 34.—What is Meant by Abraham’s Marrying Keturah After Sarah’s Death. What did Abraham mean by marrying Keturah after Sarah’s death? Far be it from us to suspect him of incontinence, especially when he had reached such an age and such sanctity of faith. Or was he still seeking to beget children, though he held fast, with most approved faith, the promise of God that his c…
Cross-references
- 1John 3:1 — Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
- Deut 14:1 — Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
- Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
- Gal 4:22 — For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
- Gal 4:28 — Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
- Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
- Gen 18:10 — And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Gen 31:15 — Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- John 1:13 — Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- Ps 22:30 — A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
- Ps 87:6 — The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
- Rom 4:11 — And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circum
- Rom 4:13 — For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Rom 4:16 — Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who
- Rom 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
- Rom 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.