noyes - Romans:9:30-32

noyes@Romans:9:30 @ What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

noyes@Romans:9:31 @ while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.

noyes@Romans:9:32 @ Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;