Luómǎshū 9:31

31 Dàn Yǐsèliè rén zhuīqiú lǜfǎ de yì , fǎn dé bú zhe lǜfǎ de yì .

Luómǎshū 9:31 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 9:31

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,
&c.] 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.

Luómǎshū 9:31 In-Context

29 Yòu rú Yǐsaìyà xiānqián shuō guō , ruò bú shì wàn jūn zhī zhǔ gĕi wǒmen cún liú yú zhòng , wǒmen zǎo yǐ xiàng Suǒduōmǎ , Gémólā de yàngzi le .

30 Zhèyàng , wǒmen kè shuō shénme ne . nà bĕnlái bú zhuīqiú yì de waìbāngrén , fǎn dé le yì , jiù shì yīn xìn ér dé de yì .

31 Dàn Yǐsèliè rén zhuīqiú lǜfǎ de yì , fǎn dé bú zhe lǜfǎ de yì .

32 Zhè shì shénme yuángù ne . shì yīnwei tāmen bú píng zhe xìnxīn qiú , zhǐ píng zhe xíngwéi qiú . tāmen zhēng diē zaì nà bàn jiǎo shí shàng .

33 Jiù rú jìng shàng suǒ jì , wǒ zaì Xī \'ān fàng yī kuaì bàn jiǎo de shítou , diē rén de pánshí . xìn kào tāde rén bì búzhìyú xiūkuì .