22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them `my people,` which were not my people; And her `beloved,` who was not beloved."
26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, `You are not my people,` There will they be called `sons of the living God.`"
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;
28 For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
