Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As indeed he says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people

I will call ‘my people,’

and her who was not beloved

I will call ‘my beloved.’ ”

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

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

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved; ²⁸for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch.” ²⁹And as Isaiah predicted,

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

we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.”

³⁰What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; ³¹but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, ³³as it is written,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble,

a rock that will make them fall;

and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.”