Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 So you will ask me, "Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?" 20 On the contrary, friend, who are you anyway that you would answer back to God? Can the clay that is molded ask the man who molds it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21 Has not the potter the right with his clay to make of the same lump one vessel for ornamental purposes, another for degrading service? 22 And what if God, though wishing to display His anger and make known His power, yet, has most patiently borne with the objects of His anger, already ripe for destruction, 23 so as to make known the riches of His glory for the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in ages past to share His glory -- 24 even us whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen too? 25 Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,
26 And in the place where it was said, 'You are no people of mine,' they shall be called sons of the living God."
27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numberless as the sands of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will completely and quickly execute His sentence on the earth."
29 As Isaiah again has foretold, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us some descendants, we would have fared as Sodom did and would have been like Gomorrah."