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Romans 10

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1Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. ✦ 2I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. ✦ 3For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. ✦ 4For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God. ✦ 5For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. ✦ 6But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth). ✦ 7And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).” ✦ 8In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: ✦ 9If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ✦ 10For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. ✦ 11As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” ✦ 12Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. ✦ 13For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ✦ 14But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? ✦ 15And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” ✦ 16But not everyone welcomes the Good News, for Isaiah the prophet said, “Lord, who has believed our message?” ✦ 17So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ. ✦ 18But I ask, have the people of Israel actually heard the message? Yes, they have: “The message has gone throughout the earth, and the words to all the world.” ✦ 19But I ask, did the people of Israel really understand? Yes, they did, for even in the time of Moses, God said, “I will rouse your jealousy through people who are not even a nation. I will provoke your anger through the foolish Gentiles.” ✦ 20And later Isaiah spoke boldly for God, saying, “I was found by people who were not looking for me. I showed myself to those who were not asking for me.” ✦ 21But regarding Israel, God said, “All day long I opened my arms to them, but they were disobedient and rebellious.” ✦

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Rom 3 ·10Gal 3 ·8Rom 1 ·7Rom 9 ·71 Pet 1 ·6John 6 ·5Rom 10 ·5Acts 13 ·5

Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

How Romans 10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

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    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

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    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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