1 Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.
2 I know they love God, but they don't understand
3 what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law.
4 But Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become acceptable to God by faith.
5 Moses said that a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, “If you want to live, you must do all that the Law commands.”