Salvation Is for Everyone

⁵ For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.^[a]

⁵ If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the Lord.

²¹ “But their children, too, rebelled against me. They refused to keep my decrees and follow my regulations, even though obedience would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So again I threatened to pour out my fury on them in the wilderness.

¹³ “But the people of Israel rebelled against me, and they refused to obey my decrees there in the wilderness. They wouldn’t obey my regulations even though obedience would have given them life. They also violated my Sabbath days. So I threatened to pour out my fury on them, and I made plans to utterly consume them in the wilderness.

¹¹ There I gave them my decrees and regulations so they could find life by keeping them.

¹² This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”^[a]

¹⁰ and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.

²⁷ The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”^[a]

²⁸ “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!”