Romans 9:22-30

22If God wants to demonstrate his anger and reveal his power, he can do it. But can’t he be extremely patient with people who are objects of his anger because they are headed for destruction?

23Can’t God also reveal the riches of his glory to people who are objects of his mercy and who he had already prepared for glory?

24This is what God did for us whom he called—whether we are Jews or not.

25As God says in Hosea: “Those who are not my people I will call my people. Those who are not loved I will call my loved ones.

26Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called children of the living God.”

27Isaiah also says about Israel: “Although the descendants of Israel are as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a few will be saved.

28The Lord will carry out his sentence on the land, completely and decisively.”

29This is what Isaiah predicted: “If the Lord of Armies hadn’t left us some descendants, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.”

30So what can we say? We can say that non-Jewish people who were not trying to gain God’s approval won his approval, an approval based on faith.