Romans 9:24-29
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
24 even us whom He called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
He Is Making Those Not His People His Own Children
25 As[a] He says also in Hosea: “I will call ‘Not My people’, ‘My people’; and ‘Not having been loved’, ‘Having been loved’” [Hos 2:23]. 26 “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them ‘you are not My people’, there they will be called sons of the living God” [Hos 1:10].
But Only a Remnant of Israel Will Be Saved
27 But[b] Isaiah cries-out concerning Israel: “If the number of the sons of Israel should be like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. 28 For the Lord will accomplish[c] His word upon the earth, completing[d] and cutting-short[e]” [in Isa 10:22-23]. 29 And just as Isaiah said-before [in Isa 1:9]: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left-behind a seed for us, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been likened[f] as Gomorrah”.
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- Romans 9:25 Here Paul proves that those not in a relationship with God would be called to salvation.
- Romans 9:27 Here Paul proves that only a remnant of physical Israel would be saved.
- Romans 9:28 Or more specifically, execute His sentence; less specifically, carry-out the matter.
- Romans 9:28 That is, completing the judgment; or, carrying-out His word; or, closing the account.
- Romans 9:28 Or, cutting-down, cutting-off. Paul may mean cutting-short the nation, cutting it down to the remnant; or, cutting short the time, ‘quickly’.
- Romans 9:29 That is, we would have been used as an illustration of desolation, like Gomorrah.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing
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