Romans 9:19-29

191You will say to me then, “2Why does He still find fault? For 3who has resisted His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, 45you foolish person, who 6answers back to God? 7The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object 8for honorable use, and another 9for common use? 2210What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great 11patience objects of wrath 12prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known 13the riches of His glory upon 14objects of mercy, which He 15prepared beforehand for glory, 24namely us, whom He also 16called, 17not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, 25as He also says in Hosea: “18I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”26“19And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of 20the living God.”

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “21Though the number of the sons of Israel may be 22like the sand of the sea, only 23the remnant will be saved; 2824for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, 25thoroughly and 26quickly.” 29And just as Isaiah foretold: “27If 28the Lord 29of armies had not left us 3031descendants, 32We would have become like Sodom, and would have 33been like Gomorrah.”