Romans 9:30-32

Contemporary English Version

Israel and the Good News

³⁰ What does all of this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith. ^31-32 It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying^[a] to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,