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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul emphasizes that those who are born in the family of Israel can really only be a true part of Israel through faith.
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# But it is not as though the word of God has failed
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The word "word" is a metonym for the promise that God used the words to make. Alternate translation: "But we should not think that God has failed to keep his promises" or "We should know that God has kept his promises" (See [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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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 trust in Jesus.
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