22. But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
23. And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –
24. even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
25. As he also says in Hosea:“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”
26. “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
27. And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,
28. for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”
29. Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”