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Romans - ch 9 v 21 - 33
- Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?
- And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
- and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
- us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?
- As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.
- And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.
- But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:
- for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting [it short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.
- And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.
- What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.
- But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.
- Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,
- according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
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