Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As indeed he says in Hosea,

^k“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’

and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”

^26l“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ^m‘sons of the living God.’ ”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ⁿ“Though the number of the sons of Israel³ be as the sand of the sea, ^oonly a remnant of them will be saved, ²⁸for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” ²⁹And as Isaiah predicted,

^pq“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,

^rwe would have been like Sodom

and become like Gomorrah.”

Israel’s Unbelief

³⁰What shall we say, then? ^sThat Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, ^ta righteousness that is by faith; ³¹but that Israel ^uwho pursued a law that would lead to righteousness^{4 v}did not succeed in reaching that law. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the ^wstumbling stone, ³³as it is written,

^x“Behold, I am laying in Zion ^ya stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;

^zand whoever believes in him will not be ^aput to shame.”