这样，我们可说什么呢？那本来不追求义的外邦人反得了义，就是因信而得的义。但以色列人追求律法的义，反得不着律法的义。这是什么缘故呢？是因为他们不凭着信心求，只凭着行为求，他们正跌在那绊脚石上。就如经上所记：我在锡安放一块绊脚的石头，跌人的磐石；信靠他的人必不至于羞愧。
罗马书 9:30-33
耶稣是绊脚石。信被钉十字架的基督，对犹太人是绊脚石，对外邦人是愚昧。我们在祂里面蒙召，不是为了宗教形式和行为，而是彼此相爱。耶稣说……
你要仰望我，我赐你信心，使你们不致跌倒。为你的弟兄姐妹和一个失丧、孤独的世界，我赐你所需要的爱和饶恕。我的爱是你的……
1103 JESUS is the STUMBLING STONE
JESUS is the STUMBLING STONE. Faith in the Christ crucified is to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles, foolishness. In Him we are called, not to religious forms and works, but to love one another. JESUS says…
Look to Me. I give you the faith to keep from stumbling. I give you the love and forgiveness you need for your brothers and sisters and for a lost, lonely world. My love is yours…
“Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith, but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith but as though it were by works. They stumbled over THE STUMBLING STONE, just as it is written, ‘BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.’”
Romans 9:30-33