Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,

and she who is Unloved, Beloved. ^wx

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. ^yz

²⁷But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons

is like the sand of the sea, ^a

only the remnant will be saved; ^b

²⁸for the Lord will execute His sentence

completely and decisively on the earth. ^cde

²⁹And just as Isaiah predicted:

If the Lord of Hosts ^fhad not left us offspring, ^g

we would have become like Sodom,

and we would have been made like Gomorrah. ^hi

Israel’s Present State

³⁰What should we say then? ^jGentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith. ^k31But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, ^lhas not achieved the righteousness of the law. ^mn32Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. ^oThey stumbled over the stumbling stone. ^p33As it is written:

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

and a rock to trip over,

yet the one who believes on Him ^q

will not be put to shame. ^rs