Romans 9:26-10:8

New International Version

²⁶and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”^[a]^(A)

²⁷Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,^(B)
only the remnant will be saved.^(C)
²⁸For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[b]^(D)

²⁹It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty^(E)
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.”^[c]^(F)

Israel’s Unbelief

³⁰What then shall we say?^(G) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;^(H) ³¹but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,^(I) have not attained their goal.^(J) ³²Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.^(K) ³³As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^[d]^(L)

10 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire^(M) and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. ²For I can testify about them that they are zealous^(N) for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. ³Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.^(O) ⁴Christ is the culmination of the law^(P) so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.^(Q)

⁵Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[e]^(R) ⁶But the righteousness that is by faith^(S) says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[f]^(T) (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[g]^(U) (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).^(V) ⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[h]^(W) that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: