Romans 9:22-33

New American Standard Bible

²²^[a]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great ^(A)patience objects of wrath ^(B)prepared for destruction? ²³And He did so to make known ^(C)the riches of His glory upon ^(D)objects of mercy, which He ^(E)prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴namely us, whom He also ^(F)called, ^(G)not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, ²⁵as He also says in Hosea:

“^(H)I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
²⁶“^(I)And 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 ^(J)the living God.”

²⁷Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “^(K)Though the number of the sons of Israel may be ^(L)like the sand of the sea, only ^(M)the remnant will be saved; ²⁸^(N)for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, ^[b]thoroughly and ^[c]quickly.” ²⁹And just as Isaiah foretold:

“^(O)If ^(P)the Lord ^[d]of armies had not left us ^[e]^(Q)descendants,
^(R)We would have become like Sodom, and would have ^[f]been like Gomorrah.”

³⁰^(S)What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, but ^(T)the righteousness that is ^[g]by faith; ³¹however, Israel, ^(U)pursuing a law of righteousness, did not ^(V)arrive at that law. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue it ^[h]by faith, but as though they could ^[i]by works. They stumbled over ^(W)the stumbling stone, ³³just as it is written:

“^(X)Behold, I am laying in Zion ^(Y)a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,
^(Z)And the one who believes in Him ^(AA)will not be ^[j]put to shame.”