31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
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;
31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."
33 As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
9:31But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.
9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
9:31But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.
9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
9:31But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
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9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.