Romans 10
1 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
2 For I can testify on their behalf that they are zealous for God, but not with understanding.
3 For, not knowing God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
4 For Christ is the culmination of the Law, so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 For Moses writes that the person who practices the righteousness that comes from the Law will live by it.
6 But the righteousness that comes from faith says this: “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 abyss?” — that is, to bring Christ up from among the dead.
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith that we proclaim.
9 For if you confess 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 with the heart one believes and is made righteous, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11 For Scripture says: “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord is Lord of all, and is generous to all who call on him.
13 For: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 How, then, will they call on someone they have not believed in? And how will they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how will they hear without someone proclaiming the message?
15 And how will they proclaim it unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who announce good things!”
16 But not everyone has obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: “Lord, who has believed our message?”
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
18 But I ask: Have they not heard? On the contrary: “Their voice has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”
19 But I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
20 And Isaiah dares to say: “I was found by those who were not looking for me; I made myself known to those who were not asking for me.”
21 But concerning Israel he says: “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and argumentative people.”
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