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- Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
- For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
- For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
- For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
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- But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: "DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?' (that is, to bring Christ down),
- or 'WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."
- But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
- that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
- for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
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- For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."
- For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
- for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."
- How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
- How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!"
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