Romans 9:28

28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[a]

Romans 9:28 in Other Translations

KJV
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
ESV
28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."
NLT
28 For the LORD will carry out his sentence upon the earth quickly and with finality.”
MSG
28 God doesn't count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus.
CSB
28 for the Lord will execute His sentence completely and decisively on the earth.

Romans 9:28 In-Context

26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

Cross References 1

  • 1. Isaiah 10:22,23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)
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