Romans 10:20

Then Isaiah was bold enough to say: "I have been found by a people who were not searching for me; I have made known myself to people who were not asking to know me."

Romans 9:24-26

even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too?

Ephesians 2:12-13

At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

Romans 9:30

What are we then to conclude? That heathen peoples who were not in search for right standing with God have obtained it, and that a right standing conditioned on faith;

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once His mercy had not been shown you, but now it has.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

General references

Bible References

I am sought

Romans 9:24
even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too?
Romans 10:20
Then Isaiah was bold enough to say: "I have been found by a people who were not searching for me; I have made known myself to people who were not asking to know me."
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.

Unto

1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once His mercy had not been shown you, but now it has.

General references

Romans 9:16
So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.
Romans 15:21
but, as the Scripture says: "They will see who were never told of Him, and they will understand who have not heard."