Romans 9:25-33

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,

31but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

33just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”