1Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.
2I know they love God, but they don't understand
3what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law.
4But Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become acceptable to God by faith.
Anyone can be saved5Moses said that a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, “If you want to live, you must do all that the Law commands.”
6But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, “Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?”
17No one can have faith without hearing the message about Christ.
18But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say,
“The message was told
everywhere on earth.
It was announced
all over the world.”
19Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered this question when he told that the Lord had said,
“I will make Israel jealous
of people
who are a nation
of nobodies.
I will make them angry
with people
who don't understand
a thing.”
20Isaiah was fearless enough to tell that the Lord had said,
“I was found by people
who were not looking
for me.
I appeared to the ones
who were not asking
about me.”
21And Isaiah said about the people of Israel,
“All day long the Lord
has reached out
to people who are stubborn
and refuse to obey.”
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