Berean Standard Bible

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 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; 31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. 32Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33as it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumblingand a rock of offense;5and the one who believes in Himwill never be put to shame.”6

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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) ↩
5. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 8:14 ↩
6. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 28:16 (see also LXX) ↩

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