28. For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29. And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
30. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31. But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32. Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
33. As it is written,