Romans 9

v.3

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,

v.6

It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

v.24-26

even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵As he says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,” ²⁶and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.‘“

v.33

As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”