Romans 9:30-33 ▼

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.”