Romans 9:8 - সমস্ত সংস্করণ তুলনা করুন

In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

This means that Abraham’s physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. Only the children of the promise are considered to be Abraham’s children.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent  who are God’s children,  but the children of the promise  are considered to be the offspring.

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.

That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

Don’t suppose for a moment, though, that God’s Word has malfunctioned in some way or other. The problem goes back a long way. From the outset, not all Israelites of the flesh were Israelites of the spirit. It wasn’t Abraham’s sperm that gave identity here, but God’s promise. Remember how it was put: “Your family will be defined by Isaac”? That means that Israelite identity was never racially determined by sexual transmission, but it was God-determined by promise. Remember that promise, “When I come back next year at this time, Sarah will have a son”?

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

That is, it is not the children of the body [Abraham’s natural descendants] who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are counted as [Abraham’s true] descendants.

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.