MLV(i)
1 Brethren, indeed the delight of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for their salvation.
2 For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to full knowledge.
3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 For Moses writes of the righteousness which is from the law, ‘The man who practices those things will be living in them.’
6 But the righteousness from faith says thus, ‘You should not say in your heart, Who will be ascending into heaven?’(This is: to lead Christ down.)
7 Or, ‘Who will be going down into the abyss?’(This is: to lead Christ up from among the dead.)
8 But what does it say? ‘The declaration is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.’This is the declaration of the faith which we are preaching:
9 that if you confessed the Lord Jesus in your mouth and if you have believed in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for it is believed in the heart toward righteousness and it is confessed with the mouth toward salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, ‘Everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.’
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, being rich toward all who are calling upon him;
13 for everyone, ‘Whomever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.’
14 Therefore how will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe of whom they have not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching?
15 But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’
16 But not all obeyed the good-news; for Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our report?’
17 Consequently, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the declaration of God.
18 But I am saying, ‘Did they not hear?’But-rather, ‘Their sounds went out into all the earth and their declarations to the ends of the inhabited-earth.’
19 But I am saying, Did Israel not know? First Moses says, ‘I will provoke you to jealousy upon what is no nation. I will rouse you to anger upon a nation which has no understanding.’
20 Now Isaiah is very daring and says, ‘I was found by those who are not seeking me. I became manifest to those who are not asking for me.’
21 But he says to Israel, ‘The whole day, I outstretched my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.’