45:009:020 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 45:009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 45:009:022 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 45:009:023 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 45:009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 45:009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 45:009:026 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. 45:009:027 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 45:009:028 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. 45:009:029 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. 45:009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 45:009:031 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 45:009:032 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 45:009:033 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 45:010:001 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 45:010:002 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 45:010:003 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 45:010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 45:010:005 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.