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Romans - ch 9 v 21 - 33
- Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
- What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
- And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
- Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
- As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved.
- And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
- And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
- For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.
- And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
- But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
- Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;
- As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
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