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.”
26 “They were called,‘You are not my people,’but later they will be called‘children of the living God.’ ”
27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel:“The people of Israel are many,like the grains of sand by the sea.But only a few of them will be saved,
28 because the Lord will quickly and completely punish the people on the earth.”
29 It is as Isaiah said:“The Lord All-Powerfulallowed a few of our descendants to live.Otherwise we would have been completely destroyedlike the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
30 So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.
31 The people of Israel tried to follow a law to make themselves right with God. But they did not succeed,