Righteousness Based on Faith.^* 30What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith;^x 31but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?^y 32Why not? Because they did it not by faith, but as if it could be done by works.^z They stumbled over the stone that causes stumbling,^* 33as it is written:

“Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion

that will make people stumble

and a rock that will make them fall,

and whoever believes in him shall not be put to shame.”^a