29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

‘Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.’[a]

Israel’s unbelief

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

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9