Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As He says also in Hosea,

“^aI will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’

And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”

²⁶“^aAnd it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’

There they shall be called sons of ^bthe living God.”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “^aThough the number of the sons of Israel be ^blike the sand of the sea, it is ^cthe remnant that will be saved;

^28afor the Lord will execute His word on the land, ¹thoroughly and ²quickly.”

²⁹And just as Isaiah foretold,

“^aUnless ^bthe Lord of ¹Sabaoth had left to us a seed,

^cWe would have become like Sodom, and would have ²resembled Gomorrah.”

^30aWhat shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, laid hold of righteousness, even ^bthe righteousness which is ¹by faith;

³¹but Israel, ^apursuing a law of righteousness, did not ^battain that law.

³²Why? Because they did not pursue it ¹by faith, but as though it were ²by works. They stumbled over ^athe stumbling stone,

³³just as it is written,

“^aBehold, I am laying in Zion ^ba stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,

^cAnd the one who believes upon Him ^dwill not be put to shame.”