Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As it^E also says in Hosea,

I will call Not my People, My People,

and she who is Unloved, Beloved.^Fbd

²⁶And it will be in the place where they were told,

you are not my people,

there they will be called sons of the living God.^Gbe

²⁷But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

Though the number of Israelites

is like the sand of the sea,^bf

only the remnant will be saved;^bg

²⁸since the Lord will execute his sentence

completely and decisively on the earth.^HIbh

²⁹And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Hosts^s had not left us offspring,^bi

we would have become like Sodom,

and we would have been made like Gomorrah.^Ja

ISRAEL’S PRESENT STATE

³⁰What should we say then?^b Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.^{c 31}But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness,^d has not achieved the righteousness of the law.^{Ke 32}Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works.^L They stumbled over the stumbling stone.^{f 33}As it is written,

Look, I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over

and a rock to trip over,

and the one who believes on him^g

will not be put to shame.^Ah