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29 Isaiah said also, “If God had not left some of the Jews, we would have all been destroyed like the people who lived in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.” (A)

30 What are we to say about these things? The people who are not Jews were not made right with God by the Law. They were made right with God because they put their trust in Him. 31 The Jews tried to be right with God by obeying the Law, but they did not become right with God.

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29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(A)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[a](B)

Israel’s Unbelief

30 What then shall we say?(C) That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;(D) 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,(E) have not attained their goal.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9