Romans 9:25–33

²⁵As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;

and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”ⁱⁱ

²⁶and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,

‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”^jj

²⁷Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,^k

only the remnant will be saved.^l

²⁸For the Lord will carry out

his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^km

²⁹It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almightyⁿ

had left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have been like Gomorrah.”^lo

Israel’s Unbelief

³⁰What then shall we say?^p That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;^{q 31}but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,^r have not attained their goal.^{s 32}Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.^{t 33}As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble

and a rock that makes them fall,

and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^mu