< Romans 10 >
1 Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.
Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is — for salvation;
2 For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm.
for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
3 Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.
for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
4 For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination of Law to every believer.
For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
5 Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.
for Moses doth describe the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'
6 But the righteousness which is based on faith speaks in a different tone. "Say not in your heart," it declares, "'Who shall ascend to Heaven?'" --that is, to bring Christ down;
and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: 'Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?
7 "nor 'Who shall go down into the abyss?'" --that is, to bring Christ up again from the grave. (Abyssos )
or, 'Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up. (Abyssos )
8 But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--
But what doth it say? 'Nigh thee is the saying — in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;
9 that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.
that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,
10 For with the heart men believe and obtain righteousness, and with the mouth they make confession and obtain salvation.
for with the heart doth [one] believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;
11 The Scripture says, "No one who believes in Him shall have reason to feel ashamed."
for the Writing saith, 'Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'
12 Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him for deliverance.
for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him,
13 For "every one, without exception, who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
for every one — whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'
14 But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in One whose voice they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?
How then shall they call upon [him] in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe [on him] of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?
15 And how are men to preach unless they have been sent to do so? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good!"
and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, 'How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'
16 But, some will say, they have not all hearkened to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed the Message they have heard from us?"
But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, 'Lord, who did give credence to our report?'
17 And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.
so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
18 But, I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed: "To the whole world the preachers' voices have sounded forth, and their words to the remotest parts of the earth."
but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed — 'to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'
19 But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."
But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by [that which is] not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'
20 And Isaiah, with strange boldness, exclaims, "I have been found by those who were not looking for Me, I have revealed Myself to those who were not inquiring of Me."
and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, 'I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'
21 While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."
and unto Israel He saith, 'All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'