1I am a follower of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is a witness to my conscience. So I tell the truth and I am not lying when I say
2my heart is broken and I am in great sorrow.
3I would gladly be placed under God's curse and be separated from Christ for the good of my own people.
4 I pray that God, who rules over all, will be praised forever! Amen.
6It cannot be said that God broke his promise. After all, not all of the people of Israel are the true people of God.
7-8Israel and the Good News
30What does all of this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith.
31-32It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,
33Is 28.16 (LXX). just as God says in the Scriptures,
“Look! I am placing in Zion
a stone to make people
stumble and fall.
But those who have faith
in that one will never
be disappointed.”
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