“(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to [divine] selection, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling),”— Romans 9:11 (LSV)
8that is, the children of the flesh—these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
9for the word of promise [is] this: “According to this time I will come, and there will be to Sarah a son.”
10And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one—our father Isaac
11(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to [divine] selection, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling),
12it was said to her, “The greater will serve the less”;
13according as it has been written: “Jacob I loved, and Esau I hated.”
14What, then, will we say? Unrighteousness [is] with God? Let it not be!