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 was Christ to be received by His own people?
How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought by being baptized into Christ?
What was the difference between Cain's and Abel's characters?
What did some of the people do on the seventh day?
Who did He say would be saved?
How may one grow in grace?
How completely will the pains and sorrows of the former world pass away?

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