Romans 10:1-21
10 Brothers, the goodwill of my heart and my supplication to God for them are, indeed, for their salvation.+
2 For I bear them witness* that they have a zeal+ for God; but not according to accurate knowledge;+
3 for, because of not knowing the righteousness of God+ but seeking to establish their own,+ they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.+
4 For Christ is the end* of the Law,+ so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.+
5 For Moses writes that the man that has done the righteousness of the Law will live by it.+
6 But the righteousness resulting from faith speaks in this manner: “Do not say in your heart,+ ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’+ that is, to bring Christ+ down;
7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’+ that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.”+
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your own mouth and in your own heart”;+ that is, the “word”+ of faith, which we are preaching.*+
9 For if you publicly declare that ‘word in your own mouth,’+ that Jesus is Lord,*+ and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead,+ you will be saved.+
10 For with the heart+ one exercises faith for righteousness, but with the mouth one makes public declaration+ for salvation.
11 For the Scripture says: “None that rests+ his faith on him will be disappointed.”*+
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek,+ for there is the same Lord over all, who is rich+ to all those calling upon him.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah* will be saved.”+
14 However, how will they call on him in whom they have not put faith?+ How, in turn, will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach?+
15 How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent forth?+ Just as it is written: “How comely are the feet of those who declare good news of good things!”+
16 Nevertheless, they did not all obey the good news.+ For Isaiah says: “Jehovah,* who put faith in the thing heard from us?”+
17 So faith follows the thing heard.+ In turn the thing heard is through the word about Christ.*+
18 Nevertheless I ask, They did not fail to hear, did they? Why, in fact, “into all the earth their sound went out,+ and to the extremities* of the inhabited earth* their utterances.”+
19 Nevertheless I ask, Israel did not fail to know, did they?+ First Moses says: “I will incite YOU people to jealousy through that which is not a nation; I will incite YOU to violent anger through a stupid nation.”+
20 But Isaiah becomes very bold and says: “I was found by those who were not seeking me;+ I became manifest to those who were not asking for me.”+
21 But as respects Israel he says: “All day long I have spread out my hands toward a people that is disobedient+ and talks back.”+
Footnotes
^ “I bear . . . witness.” Gr., mar·ty·roʹ; Lat., te·sti·moʹni·um . . . per·hiʹbe·o.
^ Or, “the accomplished (completed) end.” Gr., teʹlos.
^ Or, “we are heralding.” Gr., ke·rysʹso·men; Lat., prae·di·caʹmus. Compare Da 5:29 ftn, “Heralded.”
^ Gr., kyʹri·os; J12-14,16-18,22(Heb.), ha·ʼa·dhohnʹ, “the Lord.” Not “Jehovah.”
^ Or, “ashamed.”
^ See App 1D.
^ See App 1D.
^ “Word about Christ,” P46א*BCD*Vg; אcASyp, “word of God”; J7,8,10, “word of Jehovah.”
^ “Inhabited earth.” Lit., “inhabited.” Gr., oi·kou·meʹnes, fem. sing., implying the earth.
