Roma 9:27

9:27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children ¹  of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

Roma 9:30-33

Israel’s Rejection Culpable

9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith, 9:31 but Israel even though pursuing ²  a law of righteousness ³  did not attain it. ⁴  9:32 Why not? Because they pursued ⁵  it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. ⁶  They stumbled over the stumbling stone, ⁷  9:33 just as it is written,

“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble

and a rock that will make them fall, ⁸ 

yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ⁹ 

Roma 10:3

10:3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

[9:27]  ¹ tn Grk “sons.”

[9:31]  ² tn Or “who pursued.” The participle could be taken adverbially or adjectivally.

[9:31]  ³ tn Or “a legal righteousness,” that is, a righteousness based on law. This translation would treat the genitive δικαιοσύνης (dikaiosunh") as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-91).

[9:31]  ⁴ tn Grk “has not attained unto the law.”

[9:32]  ⁵ tn Grk “Why? Because not by faith but as though by works.” The verb (“they pursued [it]”) is to be supplied from the preceding verse for the sake of English style; yet a certain literary power is seen in Paul’s laconic style.

[9:32]  ⁶ tc Most mss, especially the later ones (א² D Ψ 33 Ï sy), read νόμου (nomou, “of the law”) here, echoing Paul’s usage in Rom 3:20, 28 and elsewhere. The qualifying phrase is lacking in א* A B F G 6 629 630 1739 1881 pc lat co. The longer reading thus is weaker externally and internally, being motivated apparently by a need to clarify.

[9:32]  tn Grk “but as by works.”

[9:32]  ⁷ tn Grk “the stone of stumbling.”

[9:33]  ⁸ tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”

[9:33]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.