3for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
4For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
5for Moses doth describe the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,`
6and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,` that is, Christ to bring down?
7or, `Who shall go down to the abyss,` that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.
8But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:` that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;
9that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,