21. Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
22. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
24. Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.
25. As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not my people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved.
26. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.
27. Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28. For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29. And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.
30. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:
31. But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32. Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;