Romans 10:9

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him, you will be saved. Salvation comes through heartfelt faith expressed in open confession.

Cross-references · 17

• Luke 12:8“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
• Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Matt 10:32–33Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
• 1 Jn 4:2–3By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
• 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
• 1 Cor 15:14–18If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
• Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• Rom 14:11For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”
• John 12:42–43Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
• 1 Cor 12:3Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
• John 20:26–29After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
• John 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
• Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
• Acts 8:36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
• John 6:69–71We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

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