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Romans 9:31
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But Israel couldn't wrap their heads around it. They wanted the Code, not mercy. They were an unbelieving lot and never succeeded in becoming right with him.
but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain that law.
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.
But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
But Israel following after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
while the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a Law that could give righteousness, have not arrived at one.
But Israel which followed after the Law of righteousnesse, hath not attained to the Law of righteousnes.
but Israel following after a Law of righteousness did not arrive at a Law of righteousness?
Agayne, Israel folowed the lawe of righteousnes, and attayned not vnto the lawe of righteousnes.
but Israel, who followed the law of justice, hath not attained to the law of justice.
whereas Israel, [though always] pursuing the law of righteousness, did not succeed in fulfilling the law.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto ye lawe of rightewesnes.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.
But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;
The people of Israel tried to follow a law to make themselves right with God. But they did not succeed,
but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
It also means that the people of Israel were not acceptable to God. And why not? It was because they were trying to be acceptable by obeying the Law instead of by having faith in God. The people of Israel fell over the stone that makes people stumble,
However, Isra'el, even though they kept pursuing a Torah that offers righteousness, did not reach what the Torah offers.
but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
But Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnes, could not arteine vnto the Law of righteousnes.
But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
but Yisra'el, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
But Israel, who did pursue the righteousness that is based on the law, did not arrive at that law.Romans 10:2; 11:7; Galatians 5:4;">[xr]
but Israel, who followed [fn] after the law of righteousness, unto the law of righteousness have not attained.
But Israel, who ran after the law of righteousness, hath not found the law of righteousness.
but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. [fn]
The Jews tried to be right with God by obeying the Law, but they did not become right with God.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
Whereas, Israel, though in pursuit of a law of righteousness, unto a law, have not attained.
But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.
But Israel, which folowed the lawe of ryghteousnesse, hath not attayned to the lawe of ryghteousnesse.
And the people of Israel, who tried to make themselves right with God by following the law, did not succeed.
however, Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.
But Israel suynge the lawe of riytwisnesse, cam not parfitli in to the lawe of riytwisnesse.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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followed: Romans 9:30-32, Romans 10:2-4, Galatians 3:21, Philippians 3:6
hath: Romans 3:20, Romans 4:14, Romans 4:15, Romans 11:7, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:11, Galatians 5:3, Galatians 5:4, James 2:10, James 2:11
Reciprocal: Psalms 69:27 - let them Proverbs 14:6 - scorner Isaiah 55:2 - do ye Amos 8:12 - shall run Malachi 3:2 - who may abide Luke 13:24 - for Luke 18:9 - which John 6:29 - This Acts 13:39 - from which Romans 10:3 - to establish Romans 10:6 - righteousness Galatians 5:2 - that Philippians 3:9 - not Colossians 3:11 - there
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,.... The Israelites, the far greater part of the Jews, who were not called by the grace of God, were all very zealous of the law, called "the law of righteousness"; because the matter of it was righteous, it was so in its own nature; and because perfect obedience to it is righteousness; as also because they sought for righteousness by the deeds of it. They very violently and eagerly pursued after it, they tugged and toiled, and laboured with all their might, as persons in running a race, to get up to the law, and the righteousness of it; and yet Israel, with all the pains and labour taken,
hath not attained to the law of righteousness: some of them fancied they had, supposing an external conformity to it, to be all that it insisted upon; not knowing the spirituality of it, that it required truth and holiness in the inward parts; and that he that offended in one point of it, was guilty of all, and therefore could not be justified by it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But Israel - The Jews. The apostle does not mean to affirm that none of the Jews had obtained mercy, but that “as a people,” or acting according to the prevalent principles of the nation to work out their own righteousness, they had not obtained it.
Which followed after the law of righteousness - The phrase, “the law of righteousness,” means the law of justice, or “the just law.” That Law demands perfect purity; and even its external observance demanded holiness. The Jews supposed that they rendered such obedience to that Law as to constitute “a meritorious” ground of justification. This they had “followed after,” that is, pursued zealously and unremittingly. The reason why they did not obtain justification in that way is fully stated in Rom. 1–3 where it is shown that the Law demands perfect compliance with its precepts; and that Jews, as well as Gentiles, had altogether failed in rendering such compliance.
Hath not attained to the law of righteousness - They have not come to yield true obedience to the Law, even though imperfect; not such obedience as to give evidence that they have been justified. We may remark here,
- That no conclusion could have been more humbling to a Jew than this. It constituted the whole of the prevalent religion, and was the object of their incessant toils.
(2)As they made the experiment fully, and failed: as they had the best advantages for it, and did not succeed, but reared only a miserable and delusive system of self-righteousness Philippians 3:4-9; it follows, that all similar experiments must fail, and that none now can be justified by the Law.
(3)Thousands fail in the same attempt.
They seek to justify themselves before God. They attempt to weave a righteousness of their own. The moral man does this. The immoral man attempts it as much as the moral man, and is as confident in his own righteousness. The troubled sinner does this; and this it is which keeps him so long from the cross of Christ. All this must be renounced; and man must come as a poor, lost, ruined sinner, and throw himself upon the mere mercy of God in Christ for justification and life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 9:31. But Israel, which followed after — But the Jews, who have hitherto been the people of God, though they have been industrious in observing a rule by which they supposed they could secure the blessings of God's peculiar kingdom, yet have not come up to the true and only rule by which those blessings can be secured.
