1. Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
2. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
3. For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, 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 that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.