Romans 9:25-26

9:25 As he also says in Hosea:

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ¹  ‘My beloved.’” ² 

9:26 “And in the very place ³  where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” ⁴ 

Romans 9:30-33

Israel’s Rejection Culpable

9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith, 9:31 but Israel even though pursuing ⁵  a law of righteousness ⁶  did not attain it. ⁷  9:32 Why not? Because they pursued ⁸  it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. ⁹  They stumbled over the stumbling stone, ¹⁰  9:33 just as it is written,

“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble

and a rock that will make them fall, ¹¹ 

yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ¹² 

[9:25]  ¹ tn Grk “and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’”

[9:25]  ² sn A quotation from Hos 2:23.

[9:26]  ³ tn Grk “And it will be in the very place.”

[9:26]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Hos 1:10.

[9:31]  ⁵ tn Or “who pursued.” The participle could be taken adverbially or adjectivally.

[9:31]  ⁶ tn Or “a legal righteousness,” that is, a righteousness based on law. This translation would treat the genitive δικαιοσύνης (dikaiosunh") as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-91).

[9:31]  ⁷ tn Grk “has not attained unto the law.”

[9:32]  ⁷ tn Grk “Why? Because not by faith but as though by works.” The verb (“they pursued [it]”) is to be supplied from the preceding verse for the sake of English style; yet a certain literary power is seen in Paul’s laconic style.

[9:32]  ⁸ tc Most mss, especially the later ones (א² D Ψ 33 Ï sy), read νόμου (nomou, “of the law”) here, echoing Paul’s usage in Rom 3:20, 28 and elsewhere. The qualifying phrase is lacking in א* A B F G 6 629 630 1739 1881 pc lat co. The longer reading thus is weaker externally and internally, being motivated apparently by a need to clarify.

[9:32]  ⁹ tn Grk “the stone of stumbling.”

[9:33]  ⁹ tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”

[9:33]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.