Berean Standard Bible

Romans 9:22-30

22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? 23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— 24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? 25As He says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people,and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”1

26and,

“It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not My people,’they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”2

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea,only the remnant will be saved.28For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earththoroughly and decisively.”3

29It is just as Isaiah foretold:

“Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants,we would have become like Sodom,we would have resembled Gomorrah.”4

30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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Notes

1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23 ↩
2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10 ↩
3. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22–23 (see also LXX) ↩
4. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9 (see also LXX) ↩

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