Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,

For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me.

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?