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Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation.

I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.

As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.

Oh, the depth of the richesboth of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!How unsearchable his judgmentsand untraceable his ways!

And who has ever given to God,that he should be repaid?

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, and he gives thanks to God.

But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.