Romans 9:16-33

16So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who strives, but on God who shows mercy.

17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up—to demonstrate My power in you, so My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

18So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

20But who in the world are you, O man, who talks back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

21Does the potter have no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for common use?

22Now what if God, willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath designed for destruction?

23And what if He did so to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory?

24Even us He called—not only from the Jewish people, but also from the Gentiles—

25as He says also in Hosea, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not loved, ‘Beloved.’

26And 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 the living God.”

27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of B’nei-Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant shall be saved.

28For Adonai will carry out His word upon the earth, bringing it to an end and finishing quickly.”

29And just as Isaiah foretold, “Unless Adonai-Tzva’ot had left us seed, we would have become like Sodom and resembled Gomorrah.”

30What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness—that is, a righteousness of faith.

31But Israel, who pursued a Torah of righteousness, did not reach the Torah.

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

33just as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and whoever believes in Him shall not be put to shame.”