1. Brothers and sisters, what I want most is for all the people of Israel to be saved. That is my prayer to God.
2. I can say this about them: They really try hard to follow God, but they don’t know the right way.
3. They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.
4. Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him is made right with God.
5. Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, “The person who obeys these laws is the one who will have life through them.”
6. But this is what the Scriptures say about being made right through faith: “Don’t say to yourself, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (This means “Who will go up to heaven to get Christ and bring him down to earth?”)