21. Does the potter have no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for common use?
22. Now what if God, willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath designed for destruction?
23. And what if He did so to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory?
24. Even us He called—not only from the Jewish people, but also from the Gentiles—
25. as He says also in Hosea, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not loved, ‘Beloved.’
26. And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living God.”
27. Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of B’nei-Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant shall be saved.
28. For Adonai will carry out His word upon the earth, bringing it to an end and finishing quickly.”
29. And just as Isaiah foretold, “Unless Adonai-Tzva’ot had left us seed, we would have become like Sodom and resembled Gomorrah.”
30. What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness—that is, a righteousness of faith.
31. But Israel, who pursued a Torah of righteousness, did not reach the Torah.