Romans 9:30–10:4

Paul’s Prayer for Israel

³⁰So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith; ³¹while God’s people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it. ³²And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the “stumbling stone” ^33*that the scripture speaks of:

“Look, I place in Zion a stone

that will make people stumble,

a rock that will make them fall.

But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

10My brothers and sisters, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them! ²I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge. ³They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God’s way of putting people right. ⁴For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.