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¹Brothers, my heart's desire and my request to God is for them, for their salvation.

²For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³For they do not know of God's righteousness, and they seek to establish their own righteousness. They did not submit to the righteousness of God.

⁴For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes.

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the law: “The man who does the righteousness of the law will live by this righteousness.”

⁶But the righteousness that comes from faith says this, “Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

⁷and do not say, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” That is the word of faith, which we proclaim.

⁹For if with your mouth you acknowledge Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth he acknowledges for salvation.

¹¹For scripture says, “Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame.”

¹²For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is Lord of all, and he is rich to all who call upon him.

¹³For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

¹⁴How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? How can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? How can they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵Then how can they preach, unless they are sent?—As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim glad tidings of good things!”

¹⁶But they did not all listen to the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

¹⁷So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

¹⁸But I say, “Did they not hear?” Yes, most certainly. “Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”

¹⁹Moreover, I say, “Did Israel not know?” First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by what is not a nation. By means of a nation without understanding, I will stir you up to anger.”

²⁰Then Isaiah was very bold when he says, “I was found by those who did not seek me. I appeared to those who did not ask for me.”

²¹But to Israel he says, “All the day long I reached out my hands to a disobedient and stubborn people.”