Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 "Why then does God still find fault?" you will ask; "for who is resisting His will?" 20 Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil against GOD? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it, "Why have you made me thus?" 21 Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses? 22 And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction, 23 in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles? 25 So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.
26 And in the place where it was said to them, 'No people of Mine are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving God."
27 And Isaiah cries aloud concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved; 28 for the Lord will hold a reckoning upon the earth, making it efficacious and brief."
29 Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."