Romans 10

Chapter 10

¹Brethren, 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 in accordance with knowledge.

³For not knowing about ^aGod’s righteousness 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.

⁵For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is ¹based on law ^ashall live ²by that righteousness.

⁶But ^athe righteousness ¹based on faith speaks as follows: “^bDo not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

⁷or ‘Who will descend 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, ¹resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, ²resulting in salvation.

¹¹For the Scripture says, “^aWhoever believes in Him will not be ¹disappointed.”

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 will call 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?

¹⁵How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “^aHow beautiful are the feet of those who ^1bbring 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, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have;

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

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

¹⁹But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? 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 the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”