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Romans 9:28

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for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

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Romans 9:28 in other translations

for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

Romans 9:28 · American Standard Version

Romans 9:28 in context

  1. 26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”
  2. 27Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
    “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
    it is the remnant who will be saved;
  3. 28for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
    because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”
  4. 29As Isaiah has said before,
    “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed,
    we would have become like Sodom,
    and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
  5. 30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;