Romans 9:21-33 ▼

21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the non-Jews?

25 As he says also in Hosea, |I will call them which were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not loved, 'loved.'|

26 |It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'|

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, |Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be kept safe.

28 For he will fulfill the word and decisively in righteousness; because the Lord will carry out the word decisively in the midst of the earth.|

29 As Isaiah has said before, |Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.|

30 What should we say then? That the non-Jews, who did not follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

33 even as it is written, |Look, I am laying in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock to trip over; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.|