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God Chose People Who Are Not Jewish

25 As God says in Hosea:

“Those who are not my people
    I will call my people.
    Those who are not loved
    I will call my loved ones.
26 Wherever they were told,
    ‘You are not my people,’
        they will be called children of the living God.”

27 Isaiah also says about Israel:

“Although the descendants of Israel are
    as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore,
        only a few will be saved.

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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)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[b](B)

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(C)
    only the remnant will be saved.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10