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For I can testify for them that there is in them a zeal for God, but not according to the true knowledge.

For they know not the righteousness of God, but seek to establish their own righteousness, and because of this, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

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

For Moses writes of the righteousness of the law thus: Whoever shall do these things shall live by them.

For the heart which believes in him, shall be declared righteous, and the mouth that confesses him shall live.

For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

And in this, it does not discriminate between the Jews and the Syrians: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all who call upon him.

For whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved.

For all have not heard the preaching of the gospel. For Isaiah said, My LORD, who has believed the echoes of our voice?

Then Isaiah dared, and said, I appeared to those who did not seek me, and was found by those who did not ask for me.

I SAY, then, has God rejected his people? Far be it. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And it was said to him in a vision: Behold I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not knelt on their knees to worship Baal.

For if the first fruit is holy, the rest of the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Do not boast over the branches. For if you boast, it is not you who sustains the root, but the root sustains you.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, it may well be he will not spare you.

And even they, if they do not abide in their unbelief, will be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

For if you who have been cut from the wild olive tree, which is natural to you, and grafted contrary to your nature to become a good olive tree: how much more fruitful would they be, if they were grafted into their natural olive tree?

I am desirous, my brethren, that you should know this mystery, so that you may not be wise in your own conceits; for blindness of heart has to some degree befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in.

Now according to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But according to election, they are beloved for the fathers'' sakes.

For God does not withdraw his gift and his call.