But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

这不是说神的话落了空。因为从以色列生的不都是以色列人，

这不是说上帝的话落了空。因为从以色列生的不都是以色列人，

这不是说神的话落了空。因为从以色列生的不都是以色列人，

当然，这并不表示上帝的话落了空，因为从以色列生的，不一定都是以色列人，

当然，这不是说神的话落了空，因为出自以色列的，不都是以色列人；

但这并不是说神的话语落了空，因为由以色列所生的，并不都是以色列人；

這不是說神的話落了空。因為從以色列生的不都是以色列人，

這不是說上帝的話落了空。因為從以色列生的不都是以色列人，

這不是說神的話落了空。因為從以色列生的不都是以色列人，

當然，這並不表示上帝的話落了空，因為從以色列生的，不一定都是以色列人，

當然，這不是說神的話落了空，因為出自以色列的，不都是以色列人；

但這並不是說、上帝的話似乎廢墮了。原來從以色列而出的、並不都是「以色列人」。

但這並不是說神的話語落了空，因為由以色列所生的，並不都是以色列人；

非謂上帝之言廢也、蓋出於以色列者、非盡以色列人、

夫上帝之言不廢、由以色列生者、不得盡為以色列人、

然此非謂天主之言廢也、蓋由以色列生者、非皆為以色列人、

然則天主果食其言矣乎？無是理也！蓋出自義塞者、非必盡為義塞人；

It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

I do not mean that God’s word has failed. Not everyone in the family line of Israel really belongs to Israel.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God’s people!

Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;

But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,

But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they[ are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him,“ Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came( and the Scripture can’t be broken),

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.