For Christ is the  ¹end of the law unto righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes concerning the righteousness which is out of the law: “The man who does them shall live by them.”

But the righteousness which is out of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven?” that is, to  ¹bring Christ down;

Or, “Who will descend into the  ¹abyss?” that is, to  ²bring Christ up from the dead.

But what does it say?  ¹“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of the faith which we proclaim,

That if you confess with your  ¹mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God has  ²raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

For  ¹with the heart there is believing  ²unto righteousness, and  ¹with the mouth there is confession  ²unto salvation.

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and  ¹rich to all who call upon Him;

For “whoever  ¹calls upon the name of the Lord shall be  ²saved.”

How then shall they call upon Him into whom they have not  ¹believed? And how shall they believe into Him of whom they have not  ²heard? And how shall they hear without one who proclaims Him?

And how shall they proclaim Him unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the news of good things!”

But not all have  ¹obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”

So faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes surely: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth.”

But I say, Did Israel not know this? First, Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by them who are not a nation; by a nation without understanding I will anger you.”

And Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

But with regard to Israel he says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a people who disobey and contradict.”

To the choir director, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David

I said, I will keep my ways,
So that I do not sin with my tongue;
I will keep a muzzle on my mouth
When the wicked are before me.

I was dumb and silent;
I held my peace, even from good;
And my pain was stirred up.

My heart was hot within me;
While I mused, the fire burned;
I spoke with my tongue:

O Jehovah, cause me to know my end,
And the measure of my days, what it is.
May I know how transient I am.

Behold, You have made my days as mere handbreadths,
And my lifetime is as nothing before You;
Surely every man  ¹at his best is altogether  ²vanity. Selah

Surely man goes about as a semblance;
Surely they bustle about in vain:
He heaps up riches yet knows not
Who will gather them.

And now what am I waiting for, O Lord?
My hope — it is in You.

Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the fool's reproach.

I was dumb; I did not open my mouth;
For You have done this.

Remove Your plague from me;
By the hostility of Your hand I am consumed.

With rebukes You chasten a man because of iniquity,
And cause what is desirous to him to disappear like a moth.
Surely every man is vanity. Selah

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah;
And give ear to my cry;
Do not hold Your peace at my tears.
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Look away from me, that I may be cheerful,
Before I go away and am no more.

To the choir director. A Psalm of David

I waited patiently on Jehovah,
And He inclined to me
And heard my cry.

Then He brought me up out of a pit of destruction,
Out of the miry clay;
And He set my feet upon a rock,
Establishing my steps.

Then He put a new song in my mouth,
A praise to our God.
Many see it and fear,
And they trust in Jehovah.

 ¹Blessed is the man
Who makes Jehovah his trust
And does not turn to the proud
Or to those who turn aside after deception.

Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful deeds which You have done
And Your thoughts toward us;
They cannot be set in order unto You.
Were I to declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to recount.

 ¹You do not delight in  ²sacrifice and offering;
You have  ³prepared ears for Me;
You do not require burnt offering and sin offering.

Then I said,
Behold, I have  ¹come;
In the  ²scroll of the book
It is written concerning Me.

I delight in doing Your will, O My God;
Indeed Your law is within My inward parts.

I bear tidings of righteousness
In the great congregation.
Behold, I will not withhold My lips;
O Jehovah, You know.

I have not hidden Your righteousness
Within My heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great
congregation.

You, O Jehovah, do not withhold
Your compassions from me;
May Your lovingkindness and Your truth
Preserve me continually.

For evils encompass me until they cannot be counted;
My iniquities have so overtaken me
That I cannot see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
Thus my heart fails me.

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me;
O Jehovah, hasten to help me.

May those who seek my life to destroy it
Be put to shame and confounded together;
May those who take delight in my misfortune
Be turned back and humiliated.

May those who say to me, Aha! Aha!
Be desolate because of their shame.

May all those who seek You
Be glad and rejoice in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
May Jehovah be magnified!

But I am poor and needy;
May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my Deliverer;
O my God, do not delay.

To the choir director. A Psalm of David

Blessed is he who considers the poor;
In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.

May Jehovah keep him and preserve him alive;
May he be  ¹blessed in the land;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

Jehovah will sustain him on his sickbed;
You make all his bed in his illness.

I said, O Jehovah, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.

My enemies speak evil against me:
When will he die and his name perish?

And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself;
When he goes out, he speaks it.

All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my misfortune.

 ¹Some evil illness, they say, has been poured out on him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise again.

 ¹Even my familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

But You, O Jehovah, be gracious to me and raise me up
That I may  ¹recompense them.

By this I know that You delight in me,
That my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.

And as for me, You uphold me in my  ¹integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.

Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel,
From eternity to eternity.
Amen and Amen.