Romans 10

CHAPTER 10

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

²For I testify about them that they have ^aa zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

³For not knowing about the ^arighteousness of God and ^bseeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁴For ^aChrist is the ¹end of the law for righteousness to ^beveryone who believes.

Faith Comes by Hearing

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of law: “^aThe man who does these things shall live by them.”

⁶But ^athe righteousness of faith speaks in this way: “^bDo not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

⁷or ‘Who will go down into the ^aabyss?’ (that is, to ^bbring Christ up from the dead).”

⁸But what does it say? “^aThe word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

⁹¹that ^aif you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and ^bbelieve in your heart that ^cGod raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

¹⁰for with the heart a person believes, ¹leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, ²leading to salvation.

¹¹For the Scripture says, “^aWhoever believes upon Him will not be put to shame.”

¹²For ^athere is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is ^bLord of ^call, abounding in riches for all who call on Him,

¹³for “^aWhoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

¹⁴How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him ^awhom they have not heard? And how will they hear without ^ba preacher?

¹⁵And how will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “^aHow beautiful are the feet of those who ^bproclaim good news of good things!”

¹⁶However, they ^adid not all heed the ¹good news, for Isaiah says, “^bLord, who has believed our report?”

¹⁷So faith comes from ^ahearing, and hearing by ^bthe word ¹of Christ.

¹⁸But I say, have they never heard? On the contrary, they have;

“^aTheir voice has gone out into all the earth,

And their words to the ends of the ¹world.”

¹⁹But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says,

“^aI will ^bmake you jealous by that which is not a nation,

By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

²⁰And Isaiah is very bold and says,

“^aI was found by those who did not seek Me,

I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

²¹But as for Israel He says, “^aAll day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”