25 [a]As he saith also in Hosea, (A)I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloved, which was not beloved.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Our vocation or calling is free and of grace, even as our predestination is: and therefore there is no cause why either our own unworthiness, or the unworthiness of our ancestors should cause us to think that we are not the elect and chosen of God, if we be called of him, and so embrace through faith the salvation that is offered us.

25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23

10 (A)Which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of God: which in time past were not under mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;(A) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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