'People' in the Bible

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

As He also says in Hosea:I will call Not My People, My People,and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

And it will be in the place where they were told,you are not My people,there they will be called sons of the living God.

But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

Again it says: Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people!

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.