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 did Jesus emphasize the necessity of conversion?
What did the prophet say His name should be called?
How came Jesus to live for a time in Egypt?
What is said of the stability of God's character?
12. Because of Christ's healing a woman of an infirmity on the Sabbath, what did the ruler of a certain synagogue say?
When cast into the lions' den, how did Daniel say he had been saved from death?
What did the prophet Isaiah predict of Christ?

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