Study Desk

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them is for their salvation.

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

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: "The person who does this will live by it."

For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him.

For "everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?

For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead?

For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God—if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.