Romans 9:7

9:7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.” ¹ 

Romans 9:25

9:25 As he also says in Hosea:

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ²  ‘My beloved.’” ³ 

[9:7]  ¹ tn Grk “be called.” The emphasis here is upon God’s divine sovereignty in choosing Isaac as the child through whom Abraham’s lineage would be counted as opposed to Ishmael.

[9:25]  ² tn Grk “and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’”

[9:25]  ³ sn A quotation from Hos 2:23.