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28 The Lord God will finish his work quickly.
He has warned his people what he will do.
And he will punish them completely.’[a]

29 Isaiah had already said this:

‘The Lord of great power has let some of our children live.
If he had not done that, no descendants would remain.
We would have become like the people in Sodom and Gomorrah.’[b]

30 So, we must think about what all this means. The Gentiles were not trying to become right with God. But some of them have now become right with him. God has accepted them as right, because they have believed in Jesus Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:28 See Isaiah 10:22-23.
  2. 9:29 See Isaiah 1:9 and Genesis 19:1-29. Sodom and Gomorrah were small towns. The people who lived there refused to obey God. So God destroyed those towns.