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25就像神在何西阿书上说，那本来不是我子民的，我要称为我的子民。本来不是蒙爱的，我要称为蒙爱的。26从前在什么地方对他们说，你们不是我的子民，将来就在那里称他们为永生神的儿子。27以赛亚指着以色列人喊着说，以色列人虽多如海沙，得救的不过是剩下的余数。28因为主要在世上施行他的话，叫他的话都成全，速速地完结。29又如以赛亚先前说过，若不是万军之主给我们存留余种，我们早已像所多玛，蛾摩拉的样子了。30这样，我们可说什么呢？那本来不追求义的外邦人，反得了义，就是因信而得的义。
25Concerning 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 thosewhom I did not love before.”#9:25 Hos 2:23. 26And,“Then, at the place where they were told,‘You are not my people,’there they will be called‘children of the living God.’”#9:26 Greek sons of the living God. Hos 1:10. 27And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out,“Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore,only a remnant will be saved. 28For the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earthquickly and with finality.”#9:27-28 Isa 10:22-23 (Greek version). 29And Isaiah said the same thing in another place:“If the Lord of Heaven’s Armieshad not spared a few of our children,we would have been wiped out like Sodom,destroyed like Gomorrah.”#9:29 Isa 1:9 (Greek version). 30What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place.
