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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God about the Jews is that they would be saved. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring the Messiah down), |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7or 'Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But what does it say? "The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart." This is the message about faith that we are proclaiming: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For one believes with his heart and is justified, and declares with his mouth and is saved. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But not everyone has obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed our message?" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Consequently, faith results from listening, and listening results through the word of the Messiah. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But I ask, "Didn't they hear?" Certainly they did! In fact, "Their voice has gone out into the whole world, and their words to the ends of the earth." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Again I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Moses was the first to say, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that doesn't understand." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But about Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people." |
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