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For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth."
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And as Isaiah said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah."
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What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;
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but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
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Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.
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As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."