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As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call "my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call "beloved.' "
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"And in the very place where it was said to them, "You are not my people,' there they shall be called children of the living God."
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And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;
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for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively."
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And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left survivors to us, we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah."
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What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;
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but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
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Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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as it is written, "See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."