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Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

for with the heart doth [one] believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

for the Writing saith, `Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him,

for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?

for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these: