Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?

Answer

"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled
at that stumbling-stone!' Rom. 9: 31, 32.

How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought by being baptized into Christ?
What is the whole world called upon to do?
How are those described who heed this warning?
What is said of the character of these scaled ones?
What question does Job ask and answer?
22. How did He manifest His sympathy in the case of Mary and her friends weeping over the death of Lazarus?
For what purpose did God give His Son to the world?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle