Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As He says also in Hosea:

^l“I will call them My people, who were not My people,

And her beloved, who was not beloved.”

²⁶“And ^mit shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,

‘You are not My people,’

There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

²⁷Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:

ⁿ“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,

^oThe remnant will be saved.

²⁸For ²He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,

^pBecause the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

²⁹And as Isaiah said before:

^q“Unless the Lord of ³Sabaoth had left us a seed,

^rWe would have become like Sodom,

And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Present Condition of Israel

³⁰What shall we say then? ^sThat Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, ^teven the righteousness of faith; ³¹but Israel, ^upursuing the law of righteousness, ^vhas not attained to the law ⁴of righteousness. ³²Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, ⁵by the works of the law. For ^wthey stumbled at that stumbling stone. ³³As it is written:

^x“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,

And ^ywhoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”