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.
Anyone Can Be Saved
5 Moses said 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 the Law commands.”
6 But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, “Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?” 7 Neither will they ask, “Who will go down into the world of the dead to raise him to life?”
8 All who are acceptable because of their faith simply say, “The message is as near as your mouth or your heart.” And this is the same message we preach about faith. 9 So you will be saved, if you honestly say, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe with all your heart that God raised him from death. 10 God will accept you and save you, if you truly believe this and tell it to others.
11 The Scriptures say no one who has faith will be disappointed, 12 no matter if that person is a Jew or a Gentile. There is only one Lord, and he is generous to everyone who asks for his help. 13 All who call out to the Lord will be saved.
14 How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them? 15 And how can anyone tell them without being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news. 16 Yet not everyone has believed the message. For example, the prophet Isaiah asked, “Lord, has anyone believed what we said?”
17 No one can have faith without hearing the message about Christ. 18 But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say,
“The message was told
everywhere on earth.
It was announced
all over the world.”
19 Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered this question when he told that the Lord had said,
“I will make Israel jealous
of people
who are a nation
of nobodies.
I will make them angry
with people
who don't understand
a thing.”
20 Isaiah was fearless enough to tell that the Lord had said,
“I was found by people
who were not looking
for me.
I appeared to the ones
who were not asking
about me.”
21 And Isaiah said about the people of Israel,
“All day long the Lord
has reached out
to people who are stubborn
and refuse to obey.”
Ouyuki waKalunga Ovajuda kave u shii
Ouyuki womeitavelo
1 Ovamwatate, onda hala nomutima wange, ndele handi va indilile kuKalunga va xupifwe. 2 Osheshi ohandi va hepaulula kutya ove na ouladi okukondjela Kalunga, ndele hapakushiiva; 3 osheshi inava shiiva ouyuki waKalunga, ndele va hala okudika ouyuki wavo vene, inave liyandja koshi youyuki waKalunga. 4 Osheshi Kristus Oye exulilo lomhango, Oye ouyuki wakeshe tuu ou ta itavele.
5 Osheshi Moses okwa shanga nokupopya ouyuki ou womomhango, okutya, omunhu ou te u wanifa, ota kala e nomwenyo kuo. 6 Ndele ouyuki ou womeitavelo otau ti ngaha: “Momwenyo woye ino tya: olyelye ta londo meulu?” nokutya, a ka tale ko Kristus; 7 ile: “Olyelye ta filukile moshi mwi?” nokutya, a ka yelule mo Kristus movafi. 8 Ndelenee otau ti ngahelipi? Ondjovo i li popepi naave, mokanya koye nomomutima woye, oyo ondjovo yeitavelo ei hatu i udifa. 9 Osheshi ngeenge to hepaulula nokanya nokutya, Jesus Oye Omwene, ndele to itavele momutima woye, kutya Kalunga e mu nyumuna movafi, oto xupifwa; 10 osheshi okwiitavela nomutima otaku yukipalifa, nokuhepaulula nokanya otaku xupifa. 11 Osheshi omushangwa otau ti: “Keshe ou te mu itavele, ita ka fifwa ohoni.” 12 Osheshi apa kape netongolo pokati kOmujuda nOmugreka; osheshi Oye tuu ou Omwene waaveshe, nomuyandji woupuna kwaaveshe ava tave mu ifana. 13 Osheshi: “Keshe tuu ou ta ifana edina lOmwene, oye ota xupifwa.”
14 Ndele otava kuu ngahelipi kwaau inave mu itavela? Ndele tava itavele ngahelipi ou inave mu uda? Ndele tava udu ngahelipi ngeenge kape nomuudifi? 15 Ndele otava udifa ngahelipi, ngeenge itava tumwa? Ngaashi pa shangwa: “Eemhadi oda fewa ngahelipi daava hava udifa eenghundana diwa.” 16 Ndele haaveshe va dulika kevaengeli, osheshi Jesaja ota ti: “Omwene, olyelye a itavela eudifo letu?” 17 Hano eitavelo ohali di mokuuda, nokuuda omondjovo yaKristus.
18 Ndele ohandi pula: “Inava uda mbela?
Heeno, ondaka yavo oya ya nedu alishe,
neendjovo davo ofiyo okominghulo dounyuni.”
19 Ndele ohandi pula: Israel ine shi shiiva mbela? Tete Moses ota ti:
“Ohandi mu fifa efupandubo koshiwana shihe fi nande oshiwana,
ndele handi mu fifa ouladi koshiwana shihe neendunge.”
20 Ndele Jesaja e na ouladi, ta ti:
“Ame onda monika kwaava inava konga nge,
ndele nda holokela ava inava pula nge.”
21 Ndele mokutonga Israel ota ti: “Onda twala omaoko ange omutenya aushe koshiwana ihashi dulika, shi noshityani.”
