Romans 9:25-33

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²⁵As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”^[a]^(A)

²⁶and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”^[b]^(B)

²⁷Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,^(C)
only the remnant will be saved.^(D)
²⁸For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[c]^(E)

²⁹It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty^(F)
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.”^[d]^(G)

Israel’s Unbelief

³⁰What then shall we say?^(H) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;^(I) ³¹but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,^(J) have not attained their goal.^(K) ³²Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.^(L) ³³As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^[e]^(M)

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