25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
25 As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'"
25 Hosea put it well: I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved.
25 As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved."
25 Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea, "Those who were not my people, I will now call my people. And I will love those whom I did not love before."
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
26 "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
26 In the place where they yelled out, "You're nobody!" they're calling you "God's living children."
26 "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."
26 And, "Then, at the place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
(Read Romans 9:25-29)
The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us. Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feared that only a remnant will be saved.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Romans 9:25
Commentary on Romans 9:25-29
(Read Romans 9:25-29)
The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us. Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feared that only a remnant will be saved.