NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 28

Romans 9:28

World English Bible Updated

for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,

because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

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Romans 9:28 in context

Romans 9:25–31

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As he says also in Hosea,

“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;

and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

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“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

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Isaiah cries concerning Israel,

“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,

it is the remnant who will be saved;

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for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,

because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

29

As Isaiah has said before,

“Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed,

we would have become like Sodom,

and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

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but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

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  1. Isaiah 10:22-23

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