Darby Bible Translation

New Living Translation

The Word Brings Salvation

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.

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Dear brothers and sisters,a the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.

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For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.

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For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

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For Christ is [the] end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

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For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.b As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

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For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

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Salvation Is for Everyone

For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.c

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But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

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But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth).

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or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among [the] dead.

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And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).”

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But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

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In fact, it says,
“The message is very close at hand;
it is on your lips and in your heart.”d
And that message is the very message about faith that we preach:

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that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.

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If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.

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For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.

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For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed.

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As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.”e

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For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him.

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Jew and Gentilef are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him.

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For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

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For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”g

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How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

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But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

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and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

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And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”h

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But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

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But not everyone welcomes the Good News, for Isaiah the prophet said, “LORD, who has believed our message?”i

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So faith then [is] by a report, but the report by God's word.

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So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

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But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

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But I ask, have the people of Israel actually heard the message? Yes, they have:
“The message has gone throughout the earth,
and the words to all the world.”j

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But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through [them that are] not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

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But I ask, did the people of Israel really understand? Yes, they did, for even in the time of Moses, God said,
“I will rouse your jealousy through people who are not even a nation.
I will provoke your anger through the foolish Gentiles.”k

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But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

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And later Isaiah spoke boldly for God, saying,
“I was found by people who were not looking for me.
I showed myself to those who were not asking for me.”l

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But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.

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But regarding Israel, God said,
“All day long I opened my arms to them,
but they were disobedient and rebellious.”m

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