Catholic Public Domain Version
"What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith. "
— Romans 9:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.”
“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: ”
“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;”
“Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,”
“What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.”
“What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:”
“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.”
And Isaiah cried out on behalf of Israel: “When the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.
For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth.”
And it is just as Isaiah predicted: “Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah.”
What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.
Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.
Why is this? Because they did not seek it from faith, but as if it were from works. For they stumbled over a stumbling block,
just as it was written: “Behold, I am placing a stumbling block in Zion, and a rock of scandal. But whoever believes in him shall not be confounded.”