29. It is as Isaiah had said before, “If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”
30. So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;
31. while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.
32. And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the “stumbling stone”
33. that the scripture speaks of:“Look, I place in Zion a stonethat will make people stumble,a rock that will make them fall.But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”