And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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, ‘My beloved.’”

“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.’”

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –