Romans 9:30 CPDV

²⁸  For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth.'

²⁹  And it is just as Isaiah predicted: 'Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah.'

³⁰  What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.

³¹  Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.

³²  Why is this? Because they did not seek it from faith, but as if it were from works. For they stumbled over a stumbling block,