29. It is just as Isaiah said previously:"Unless the Lord Almightyhad left us descendants,we would have become like Sodom,we would have been like Gomorrah."
30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31. but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
32. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
33. As it is written:"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumbleand a rock that makes them fall,and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame."