Romans 9:27-33 ▼

27 but Isaiah cries out in behalf of Israel, Though the number of sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

28 For perfecting the word and cutting it short, will the Lord do a complete work on the earth:

29 and as Isaiah has before spoken; Unless the Lord of Sabaoth left to us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like unto Gomorrah:

30 Then what shall we say? That the Gentiles, not pursuing righteousness, received righteousness, and the righteousness which is from faith:

31 but Israel, following after the law, did not attain unto the law of righteousness.

32 Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

33 as has been written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.