23. And he also wanted to reveal his abundant glory, which was poured out on us who are the objects of his mercy, those of us whom he has prepared to receive his glory.
24. For we are the people he called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles.
25. This is what he says in the book of Hosea:“The people who were not mineI will call ‘My People’.The nation that I did not loveI will call ‘My Beloved’.
26. And in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’there they will be called the children of the living God.”
27. And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: “Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;
28. for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world.”
29. It is as Isaiah had said before, “If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”