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10 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.[b] As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:1 Greek Brothers.
  2. 10:4 Or For Christ is the end of the law.

10 Brethren adelphos, · ho my emos heart’ s kardia desire eudokia · ho and kai · ho prayer deēsis to pros · ho God theos for hyper the Israelites autos is that eis they may be saved sōtēria. For gar I bear them autos witness martyreō that hoti they have echō a zeal zēlos for God theos, but alla not ou according kata to knowledge epignōsis. For gar ignoring agnoeō the ho righteousness dikaiosynē that comes from ho God theos, and kai seeking zēteō to establish histēmi · ho their idios own , they did hypotassō not ou submit hypotassō to ho God’ s theos righteousness dikaiosynē. · ho For gar Christ Christos is the end telos of the law nomos, so eis now there is righteousness dikaiosynē for everyone pas who ho believes pisteuō.

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