| New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
| 1Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. | 1Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God about the Jews is that they would be saved. |
| 2I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. | 2For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge. |
| 3For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. | 3For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness. |
| 4For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God. Salvation Is for Everyone | 4For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes. |
| 5For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. | 5For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them." |
| 6But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth). | 6But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring the Messiah down), |
| 7And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).” | 7or 'Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)." |
| 8In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: | 8But what does it say? "The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart." This is the message about faith that we are proclaiming: |
| 9If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. | 9If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. |
| 10For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. | 10For one believes with his heart and is justified, and declares with his mouth and is saved. |
| 11As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” | 11The Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed." |
| 12Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. | 12There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him. |
| 13For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” | 13"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." |
| 14But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? | 14How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching? |
| 15And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” | 15And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!" |
| 16But not everyone welcomes the Good News, for Isaiah the prophet said, “LORD, who has believed our message?” | 16But not everyone has obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed our message?" |
| 17So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. | 17Consequently, faith results from listening, and listening results through the word of the Messiah. |
| 18But I ask, have the people of Israel actually heard the message? Yes, they have: “The message has gone throughout the earth, and the words to all the world.” | 18But I ask, "Didn't they hear?" Certainly they did! In fact, "Their voice has gone out into the whole world, and their words to the ends of the earth." |
| 19But I ask, did the people of Israel really understand? Yes, they did, for even in the time of Moses, God said, “I will rouse your jealousy through people who are not even a nation. I will provoke your anger through the foolish Gentiles.” | 19Again I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Moses was the first to say, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that doesn't understand." |
| 20And later Isaiah spoke boldly for God, saying, “I was found by people who were not looking for me. I showed myself to those who were not asking for me.” | 20And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me." |
| 21But regarding Israel, God said, “All day long I opened my arms to them, but they were disobedient and rebellious.” | 21But about Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people." |
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