Romans 9:22-27

The Voice

²²Even though God desires to demonstrate His anger and to reveal His power, He has shown tremendous restraint toward those vessels of wrath that are doomed to be cracked and shattered. ²³And why is that? To make the wealth of His glory known to vessels of mercy that are prepared for great beauty. ²⁴These vessels of mercy include all of us. God has invited Jews and non-Jews, insiders and outsiders; it makes no difference. ²⁵The prophet Hosea says:

I will give a new name to those who are not My people; I’ll call them “My people,”
and to the one who has not been loved, I’ll rename her “beloved.”^[a]
²⁶And it shall turn out that in the very place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,”
they will be called “children of the living God.”^[b]

²⁷And this is what Isaiah cries out when he speaks of Israel, “Even though the number of the children of Israel had once been like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of My people will be rescued and remain.

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