^{22 Ref} What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

^{23 Ref} and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

^{24 Ref} `even' us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

^{25 Ref} As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

^{26 Ref} And it shall be, `that' in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

^{27 Ref} And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

^{28 Ref} for the Lord will execute `his' word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

^{29 Ref} And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

^{30 Ref} What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

^{31 Ref} but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at `that' law.

^{32 Ref} Wherefore? Because `they sought it' not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

^{33 Ref} even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.