Romans 9:25

just as he says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘my people,’ and she who was not beloved, ‘beloved,’ and she who had not obtained mercy, ‘one who has obtained mercy.’

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In The King James Version

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

In Context

24And so it is with those of us whom he has also called, not only from among the Jews, but even from among the Gentiles,

26And this shall be: in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called the sons of the living God.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:24For you have secured your people Israel for yourself, as an everlasting people. And you, O Lord God, have become their God.

Hosea 1:1The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

John 16:27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and because you have believed that I went forth from God.

1 Peter 2:10Though in past times you were not a people, yet now you are the people of God. Though you had not obtained mercy, yet now you have obtained mercy.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:15-25

The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the… Read the whole commentary →

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