daily reading 18.1 (Romans 9:30

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024

Our opening prayer for today:

“I am the Vine; my Father is the Gardener.

Each branch that bears no fruit, he cuts away;

While every branch that yields good fruit, he trims and cleans,

So that it will produce more every day.

Now you are clean because of all to you I spoke.

Remain in me; I will remain in you.

Just as a branch without the vine will yield no grapes,

So keep abiding in me, that you bear fruit too.

“I am the Vine; if you, like branches, stay in me

And I in you, you will yield much, in turn.

Apart from me, you will accomplish not a thing,

But be a branch that withers and is burned.

If you remain in me, and my words stay within,

Ask what you wish; it will be given you."

God now be glorified in me. Let me bring forth much fruit,

Proving I am my Lord's disciple, through and through.”. Amen.

Romans 9:30–33

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.
³¹But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.
³² Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
³³ As it is written, Look, I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and the one who believes on him will not be put to shame.

Helpful notes on Romans 9:30–33

That God keeps your whole congregation from sitting in judgment of him and his word