As he says in Hosea, “Those who were ‘not my people’ I will call ‘my people,’ and those who were ‘not beloved’ I will call ‘beloved.’
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.
to all who are in Rome, beloved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.