19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? |
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: |
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, |
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. |
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. |
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: |
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. |
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. |
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. |
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; |
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. |