Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As he also says in Hosea,

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

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

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

there they shall be called children of the living God.”^*

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,^{* 28}for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively.”^{d 29}And as Isaiah predicted,

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

we would have fared like Sodom

and been made like Gomorrah.”^*

Israel’s Unbelief

³⁰What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith,^{* 31}but Israel, who did strive for the law of righteousness, did not attain that law.^{* 32}Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,^{* 33}as it is written,

“See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall,

and whoever trusts in him^e will not be put to shame.”^*