Romans 9:21-33 ▼

21 Or does the potter not have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump the one vessel indeed for honor, but the one for dishonor?

22 And what if God, desiring to display the wrath and to make known His power, bore with much patience vessels of wrath, having been fitted for destruction,

23 so that He might also make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

24 even us, whom He called not only out from Jews, but also out from Gentiles?

25 As He also says in Hosea: “I will call that which is not My people ‘My People,’ and her not beloved ‘Beloved,’”

26 and, “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You? are not My people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.””

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel may be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

28 For the Lord will execute His word, finishing and accomplishing swiftly upon the earth.”

29 And, as Isaiah forewarned: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

30 What then will we say? That the Gentiles, not pursuing righteousness, obtained righteousness—and righteousness that is by faith;

31 but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law.

32 Why? Because it was not by faith, but as by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

33 as it has been written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one believing on Him will not be put to shame.”