Rom 9:32, 1Pe 2:8 | ESV | STEP | Why ? Because they did not pursue it by faith , but as if it were based on works . They have stumbled over the stumbling stone ,

Romans 9:32

32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the ^astumbling stone,

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^b“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, ^cas they were destined to do.