Romanos 10

¹ Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of the Jews is that they would be saved.

² For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge.

³ For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's righteousness.

⁴ For Christ is the culmination of the law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

⁵ For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the law as follows: “The person who obeys these things will find life in them.”

⁶ But the righteousness that comes from faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

⁷ or ‘Who will go down into the depths?’ (that is, to bring Christ back from the dead).”

⁸ But what does it say? “The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

⁹ If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

¹⁰ For a person believes with his heart and is justified, and a person declares with his mouth and is saved.

¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be ashamed.”

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

¹³ For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

¹⁴ How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

¹⁵ And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of thosewho bring the good news!”

¹⁶ But not everyone has obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah asks, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

¹⁷ Consequently, faith comes from listening, and listening comes through the word of Christ.

¹⁸ But I ask, “Didn't they hear?” Certainly they did! In fact, “Their voice has gone out into the whole world,and their words to the ends of the earth.”

¹⁹ Again I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” Moses was the first to say, “I will make you jealousby those who are not a nation; I will make you angryby a nation that doesn't understand.”

²⁰ And Isaiah boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me;I was revealed to those who were not asking for me.”

²¹ But about Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my handsto a disobedient and rebellious people.”