Brothers and sisters, what I want most is for all the people of Israel to be saved.

I can say this about them: They really try hard to know God, but they don't know the right way.

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they try to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God's way of making people right.

Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him is made right.

Moses writes about being right by following the law. He says, "The person who obeys these laws is the one who will have life through them."

But this is what the scriptures say about being made right through faith: "Don't say to yourself, 'Who will go up into heaven?" (This means "Who will go up into heaven to get Christ and bring him down to earth?)

And don't say, "Who will go down into the world below?" (This means "Who will go down to get Christ and bring him up from death?)

This is what scripture says: "God's teaching is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart." It is the teaching of the faith that we tell people.

If you openly say "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved.

Yes, we believe in Jesus deep in our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we openly say we believe in him, and so we are saved.