Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As he also says in Hosea,

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’

and those who were not loved, ‘Loved.’^p

²⁶And it will be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

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

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

“Even if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea,

the remnant will be saved,

²⁸for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively^r upon the earth.”^s

²⁹And just as Isaiah foretold,

“If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom

and would have resembled Gomorrah.”^t

³⁰What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness—even the righteousness that is by faith. ³¹But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law. ³²Why that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble^u, ³³just as it is written,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble^v,

and a rock that causes them to fall^w,

and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”^x