31. But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
32. Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.
33. God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said, “I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes people stumble,a rock that makes them fall.But anyone who trusts in himwill never be disgraced.”