Romans 9:32

Easy To Read Version

Why not? Because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did. They did not trust in God to make them right. They fell over the stone that makes people fall.

Cross References

Isaiah 8:14

If you will respect the Lord and consider him holy, then he will be a safe place for you. But you don’t respect him. So God is like a rock that you people fall over. He is a rock that makes the two families of Israel stumble. The Lord is a trap to catch all the people of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 8:15

(Many people will fall over this rock. Those people will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.)

Matthew 13:57

And the people refused to accept Jesus.

Luke 2:34

Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, “Many Jews will fall and many will rise because of this boy. He will be a sign (proof) from God that some people will not accept.

Luke 7:23

What great blessings there are for the person that can accept {\cf2\super [131]} me!”

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 11:11

So I ask: When the Jews fell, did that fall destroy them? No! But their mistake brought salvation to the non-Jews. This happened to make the Jews jealous.

Romans 4:16

So people get God’s promise by having faith. This happens so that the promise can be a free gift. And if the promise is a free gift, then all of Abraham’s {\cf2\super [42]} people can have that promise. The promise is not only for those people that live under the law \{of Moses\}. The promise is for any person that lives with faith like Abraham. Abraham is the father of us all.

1 Corinthians 1:23

But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a big problem to the Jews. And the non-Jews think it is foolish.

1 Peter 2:6

The Scripture {\cf2\super [17]} says:

1 Peter 2:8

To people who don’t believe, he is: