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God the Creator and Redeemer

48Hear this, O house of Jacob,
   who are called by the name of Israel,
   and who came forth from the loins^* of Judah;
who swear by the name of the Lord,
   and invoke the God of Israel,
   but not in truth or right.
² For they call themselves after the holy city,
   and lean on the God of Israel;
   the Lord of hosts is his name.

³ The former things I declared long ago,
   they went out from my mouth and I made them known;
   then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I know that you are obstinate,
   and your neck is an iron sinew
   and your forehead brass,
⁵ I declared them to you from long ago,
   before they came to pass I announced them to you,
so that you would not say, ‘My idol did them,
   my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’

12 All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified. ¹⁴When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. ¹⁵They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them ¹⁶on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.