Romans 9: 22 - 10: 4
| 22What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 25As he says also in Hosea, |
| “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; |
| and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.” |
| 26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ |
| there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” |
| 27Isaiah cries concerning Israel, |
| “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, |
| it is the remnant who will be saved; |
| 28for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, |
| because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.” |
| 29As Isaiah has said before, |
| “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, |
| we would have become like Sodom, |
| and would have been made like Gomorrah.” |
| 30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. 32Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 33even as it is written, |
| “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offence; |
| and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.” |
| 1Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. 2For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 4For Christ is the fulfilment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. |
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