JMNT(i)
1 Indeed, brothers (= family, or, fellow believers),
the good thinking (pleasure; consuming desire; good will; delightful imagination)
of my heart, and the request (plea; petition) [
directed]
toward (or: face to face with)
God over them (or: for their sake) [
is; leads]
into deliverance (salvation; health and wholeness; restoration to their original state and condition) [
for them]
.
2 For I am habitually testifying and giving evidence among them, because they continue possessing a zeal from God (or: For you see, I can repeatedly bear witness to and for them that they constantly hold God's zeal and they continuously have a boiling jealously and hot aspiration concerning God),
but however, not down from (or: on the level of and in accordance with)
full and accurate experiential knowledge, recognition or insight (
epi-gnosis).
3 For they, being continuously ignorant of God's Way pointed out (or: habitually failing to recognize the rightwisedness and fairness, which are God, and the right relationships from God in His covenant justice)
and constantly seeking to establish (to set and make to stand)
their own way pointed out (plan of rightness in relational dealings),
were not placed under, and humbly aligned to, God's Way pointed out (or: subjected to God's just path and plan of fairness, or arranged under the rightwisedness from God [= brought into God's covenant participation]),