Romans 9
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Romans 9:22-30

22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –

24even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

25As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

26“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

27And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

28for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”

29Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

30What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

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