" Romans 2:17–3:9 is concerned, first, with the worldwide purpose of Israel’s divine vocation (2:17–20); second, with Israel’s covenantal failure (2:21–24; 3:2–4); and third, with the problem that this poses for God’s dikaiosynē, his “righteousness” (3:5). How is God to be faithful to the covenant—to rescue and bless the world through the Jews—if Israel is faithless? "

― N.T. Wright , The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion