Romans 9:23-33 ▼

23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He called—us—

24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

25 as also in Hosea He says, “I will call what [is] not My people—My people; and her not beloved—Beloved,

26 and it will be—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 concerning Israel, “If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved;

28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the LORD do on the land.”

29 And according as Isaiah says before, “Except the LORD of Hosts left to us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and we had been made like Gomorrah.”

30 What, then, will we say? That nations who are not pursuing righteousness attained to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith,

31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at a law of righteousness;

32 why? Because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

33 according as it has been written: “Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and everyone who is believing thereon will not be ashamed.”