Jesus

No, in all these things we are superconquerors, through the one who has loved us.

neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.

I am speaking the truth — as one who belongs to the Messiah, I do not lie; and also bearing witness is my conscience, governed by the Ruach HaKodesh:

that I could wish myself actually under God’s curse and separated from the Messiah, if it would help my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

the Patriarchs are theirs; and from them, as far as his physical descent is concerned, came the Messiah, who is over all. Praised be Adonai for ever! Amen.

For to Moshe he says, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will pity whom I pity.”

For the Tanakh says to Pharaoh, “It is for this very reason that I raised you up, so that in connection with you I might demonstrate my power, so that my name might be known throughout the world.”

So then, he has mercy on whom he wants, and he hardens whom he wants.

But you will say to me, “Then why does he still find fault with us? After all, who resists his will?”

What if he did this in order to make known the riches of his glory to those who are the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory —

As indeed he says in Hoshea, “Those who were not my people I will call my people; her who was not loved I will call loved;

and in the very place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God!”

Also, as Yesha‘yahu said earlier, “If Adonai-Tzva’ot had not left us a seed, we would have become like S’dom, we would have resembled ‘Amora.”

As the Tanakh puts it, “Look, I am laying in Tziyon a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will trip them up. But he who rests his trust on it will not be humiliated.”

For the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts.

Moreover, the righteousness grounded in trusting says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend to heaven?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah down —

or, “‘Who will descend into Sh’ol?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah up from the dead.

that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.

For the passage quoted says that everyone who rests his trust on him will not be humiliated.

That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him,

since everyone who calls on the name of Adonai will be delivered.

But how can they call on someone if they haven’t trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him?

The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Yesha‘yahu says, “Adonai, who has trusted what he has heard from us?”

Moreover, Yesha‘yahu boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me, I became known to those who did not ask for me”;

but to Isra’el he says, “All day long I held out my hands to a people who kept disobeying and contradicting.”