22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(A) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(B) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(C) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(D) 24 even us, whom he also called,(E) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(F) 25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](G)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[b](H)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(I)
    only the remnant will be saved.(J)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[c](K)

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(L)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[d](M)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
  3. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
  4. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

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