Romans 10:1–13

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.”