Then He said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I will not be your God.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, you are Sons of the Living God.

As He says also in Hosea: I will call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, There they shall be called, Sons of the living God.

And I will sow her unto Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No Mercy. And I will say to those who were Not My People, You are My people! And they shall say, You are My God!

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace no longer becomes grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one who, having received mercy from the Lord, is faithful.

although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.