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31 But Israel, while pursuing the law as a way of righteousness, did not reach it. 32 Why? Because they kept pursuing it not by faith, but as if it comes by works.[a] They stumbled over the stumbling stone. 33 Just as it is written:

Look, I am putting a stone in Zion over which they will stumble
and a rock over which they will fall.
The one who believes[b] in him will not be put to shame.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:32 Some witnesses to the text read by works of the law.
  2. Romans 9:33 Some witnesses to the text read And everyone who believes.
  3. Romans 9:33 Isaiah 28:16