Suppose you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

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,

There is no distinction between Jew and Greek for they all have the same Lord, and he is generous to all who call upon him.

But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?

for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.