Rom 9:8-9, 2Cor 5:15 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

bCited from Gen. 18:10, 14; [Gen. 17:21]

Romans 9:8-9

8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but ^athe children of the promise are counted as offspring. 9 For this is what the promise said: ^b“About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”

2 Corinthians 5:15

15 and he died for all, ^cthat those who live might no longer live for themselves but ^dfor him who for their sake died and was raised.