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He Is Making Those Not His People His Own Children

²⁵ As^[a] He says also in Hosea: “I will call ‘Not My people’, ‘My people’; and ‘Not having been loved’, ‘Having been loved’” [Hos 2:23]. ²⁶ “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them ‘you are not My people’, there they will be called sons of the living God” [Hos 1:10].

But Only a Remnant of Israel Will Be Saved

²⁷ But^[b] Isaiah cries-out concerning Israel: “If the number of the sons of Israel should be like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. ²⁸ For the Lord will accomplish^[c] His word upon the earth, completing^[d] and cutting-short^[e]” [in Isa 10:22-23]. ²⁹ And just as Isaiah said-before [in Isa 1:9]: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left-behind a seed for us, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been likened^[f] as Gomorrah”.

Israel Pursued a Righteousness Through The Law, And Did Not Attain It

³⁰ Therefore, what shall we say? That Gentiles, the ones not pursuing righteousness, took-hold-of ^[g] righteousness— but a righteousness by faith. ³¹ But Israel, pursuing the Law of righteousness, did not attain to that Law. ³² For what reason? Because they pursued it not by faith, but as-if it was by works. They stumbled on the Stone of stumbling, ³³ just as it has been written [in Isa 28:16]: “Behold— I am laying in Zion a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of falling. And the one putting-faith upon Him will not be put-to-shame”.

Israel’s Zeal Is Not In Accordance With Knowledge

10 Brothers, my heart’s desire and petition to God for them is for their salvation. ² For I testify concerning them that they have a zeal for God— but not in-accordance-with knowledge.

For They Are Ignorant of The Source of True Righteousness

³ For being-ignorant-of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For^[h] Christ is the end^[i] of the Law for^[j] righteousness for everyone believing.

The Law Requires Performance; True Righteousness Comes By Faith In Christ

⁵ For Moses writes [in Lev 18:5] as to the righteousness of the Law that “The person having done them will live by them”. ⁶ But the righteousness of faith speaks^[k] as follows: “Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up into heaven?”, that is, to bring^[l] Christ down, ⁷ or “who will go down into the abyss?”, that is, to bring^[m] Christ up from the dead. ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”, that is, the word of ^[n] faith which we are proclaiming, ⁹ that^[o] if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is believed with the heart resulting-in righteousness, and it is confessed with the mouth resulting in salvation.

The Scripture Says Faith Leads To Salvation For Both Jew And Greek

¹¹ For the Scripture says [in Isa 28:16] “everyone putting-faith upon Him will not be put-to-shame”. ¹² For there is no distinction between both Jew and Greek— for the same Lord is Lord of all, being rich toward all the ones calling-upon Him. ¹³ For “everyone who calls-upon the name of the Lord will be saved” [Joel 2:32].