3. For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.
4. For Messiah is the goal of the Torah as a means to righteousness for everyone who keeps trusting.
5. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on Torah, “The man who does these things shall live by them.”
6. But the righteousness based on faith speaks in this way: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Messiah down),
7. or, ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead).”
8. But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” —that is, the word of faith that we are proclaiming:
9. For if you confess with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10. For with the heart it is believed for righteousness, and with the mouth it is confessed for salvation.
11. For the Scripture says, “Whoever trusts in Him will not be put to shame.”
12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all—richly generous to all who call on Him.