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## But it is not as though the promises of God had failed ##
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AT: "But God has not failed to keep his promises"
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## For it is not everyone in Israel who truly belongs to Israel. ##
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God did not make his promises to all the physical descendants of Israel (or Jacob), but to his spiritual descendants, that is, those who have faith in Jesus.
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## Neither are all Abraham's descendants truly his children ##
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AT: "Nor are they all children of God just because they are Abraham's descendants"