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29 It is as Isaiah said:

“The Lord All-Powerful
    allowed a few of our descendants to live.
Otherwise we would have been completely destroyed
    like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.”[a] Isaiah 1:9

30 So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith. 31 The people of Israel tried to follow a law to make themselves right with God. But they did not succeed,

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Footnotes

  1. 9:29 Sodom and Gomorrah Two cities that God destroyed because the people were so evil.

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