24 we are those people whom God called. He called us from the Jews and from the non-Jews.
25 As the Scripture says in Hosea:“I will say, ‘You are my people’to those I had called ‘not my people.’And I will show my loveto those people I did not love.” Hosea 2:1, 23
26 “Now it is said to Israel,‘You are not my people.’But later they will be called‘children of the living God.’” Hosea 1:10
27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel:“There are so many people of Israel.They are like the grains of sand by the sea.But only a few of them will be saved.
28 For the Lord will quickly and completely punish the people on the earth.” Isaiah 10:22-23
29 It is as Isaiah said:“The Lord of heaven’s armiesallowed a few of our descendants to live.Otherwise we would have been completely destroyedlike the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.” Isaiah 1:9
30 So what does all this mean? It means this: the non-Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God. But they were made right with God because of their faith.