Romans 9:27-29

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

But Only a Remnant of Israel Will Be Saved

²⁷But^[a] Isaiah cries-out concerning Israel: “If the number of the sons of Israel should be like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. ²⁸For the Lord will accomplish^[b] His word upon the earth, completing^[c] and cutting-short^[d]” [in Isa 10:22-23]. ²⁹And just as Isaiah said-before [in Isa 1:9]: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left-behind a seed for us, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been likened^[e] as Gomorrah”.

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Footnotes

Romans 9:27 Here Paul proves that only a remnant of physical Israel would be saved.
Romans 9:28 Or more specifically, execute His sentence; less specifically, carry-out the matter.
Romans 9:28 That is, completing the judgment; or, carrying-out His word; or, closing the account.
Romans 9:28 Or, cutting-down, cutting-off. Paul may mean cutting-short the nation, cutting it down to the remnant; or, cutting short the time, ‘quickly’.
Romans 9:29 That is, we would have been used as an illustration of desolation, like Gomorrah.

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