Romans 9:22-30

221What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great 2patience objects of wrath 3prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known 4the riches of His glory upon 5objects of mercy, which He 6prepared beforehand for glory, 24namely us, whom He also 7called, 8not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, 25as He also says in Hosea: “9I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”26“10And 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 11the living God.”

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “12Though the number of the sons of Israel may be 13like the sand of the sea, only 14the remnant will be saved; 2815for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, 16thoroughly and 17quickly.” 29And just as Isaiah foretold: “18If 19the Lord 20of armies had not left us 2122descendants, 23We would have become like Sodom, and would have 24been like Gomorrah.”

3025What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but 26the righteousness that is 27by faith;