Israel’s Unbelief
What then shall we say? That the
Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness
that is by faith; but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not
attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not in faith but as
it were by works. They stumbled over the
“stumbling stone.” As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
And the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayers to God for the
Israelites is that they may be saved.
For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their
zeal is not based on knowledge. Since
they did not know the righteousness that comes from God, and sought to
establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there
may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
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All Israel Will Be Saved
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not
be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number
of Gentiles has come in. And so all
Israel will be saved, as it is written.
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob,
And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on
your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of
the patriarchs, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you were at one time disobedient to
God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so that they too
have become disobedient in order that they may now receive mercy as a result of
God’s mercy to you. For God has bound
all men over to disobedience so that they may have mercy on them all.
The Bible, Romans 9-11[1]
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