21Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? 22And what if God, willing to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; 23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory; 24whom he also called, even us, not from among the Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles? 25As also he says in Hosea:
I will call them my people, who were not my people;
And her beloved, who was not beloved.
26And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called, Sons of the living God. 27And Isaiah cries concerning Israel:
Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
The remnant shall be saved;
28For he will finish the work[28a],
And cut it short in righteousness;
Because a short work[28b] will the Lord make upon the earth.
29And as Isaiah has said before: