Romans 9:27-33 ▼

27 And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved;

28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the LORD do on the land.”

29 And according as Isaiah says before, “Except the LORD of Hosts left to us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and we had been made like Gomorrah.”

30 What, then, will we say? That nations who are not pursuing righteousness attained to righteousness, and righteousness that [is] of faith,

31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at a law of righteousness;

32 why? Because—not by faith, but as by works of law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

33 according as it has been written: “Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and everyone who is believing thereon will not be ashamed.”