Romans 9:26

For it shall be, that in the place where they were called: Not my people, there shall they be called: The children of the living God.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

25As also he said in Hosea: I will call them my people, who were not my people; and will pity, whom I have not pitied:

27And Isaiah proclaimed concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel should be as the sand on the sea, a remnant of them will live.

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Cross References

John 11:52and not only for the people, but also that he might collect together the sons of God that were dispersed.

2 Corinthians 6:18and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be sons and daughters to me, saith the Lord Almighty.

1 John 3:1And ye see, how great is the love of the Father towards us, who hath called us sons, and made us such. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it likewise knoweth him not.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:26-30

Conversion of the Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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