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but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law.
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Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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as it is written, "See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall, and whoever believes in him a will not be put to shame."
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