Romans 9:30

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 Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

³¹  But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

³²  Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;