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Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
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I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
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For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
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For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified.
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Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it.
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