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.

What did the people say when they saw these things?
What tender, filial regard did Christ manifest for His mother in the hour of His death?
For what is it profitable?
Why is the execution of the judgment given to Christ?
In what two great commandments is the law of God briefly summarized?
8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West?
Why did Christ say the meek are blessed?

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