Letters to the Churches

And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down;

Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy mouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.

For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things?

But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.