27 And Isaiah exclaims respecting Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel should be
as the sand of the sea, yet only a remnant shall be saved;
28 For the work he will finish and shorten, because a shortened work will the Lord do on the
earth;”
29 As Isaiah had also said before, “Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have
been as Sodom and made like to Gomorrha.”
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have
obtained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:
31 But Israel, by following after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of
righteousness.
32 Why? Because [they followed after it] not by faith, but as it were by works; for they have
stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
33 According to what is written, “Behold, I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of
offense:” and, “Every one who believes in him shall not be ashamed.”
CHAPTER 10
1 Brethren, the kind desire of my heart, and prayer to God for Israel, is for their salvation.
2 For I bear to them a testimony, that they have a zeal for God; but not according to knowledge,
3 For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own
righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God;
4 For the end of the law is Christ for righteousness to every one who believes.
5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is by the law,“
The man who shall do these
things shall live by them:”
6 But the righteousness, which is by faith, saith thus, “Say not in thine heart, ‘Who shall ascend
into heaven?’ this is to bring, down Christ;
7 Or, ‘Who shall descend into the deep?’ that is to bring up Christ again from the dead:” but
what does it say?
8 “Nigh thee is the word, in thy mouth and in thy heart:” this is the word of’ faith which we
preach, —
9 That if thou wilt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God has
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved;
10 For with the heart we believe to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to
salvation; for the Scripture says,
11 “Every one who believes in him shall not be ashamed:”
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; for the same is the Lord of all,
being rich to all who call on him;
13 For, “whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe
in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet
of those who proclaim peace, who proclaim good things!”