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Romans 10

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The Word Brings Salvation

(Isaiah 65:1–16)

1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.

3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”*

6But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)*

7or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”*

8But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:*

9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”*

12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”*

14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?

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

16But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”*

17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

18But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did:“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,their words to the ends of the world.”*

19I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says:“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation;I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”*

20And Isaiah boldly says:“I was found by those who did not seek Me;I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”*

21But as for Israel he says:“All day long I have held out My handsto a disobedient and obstinate people.”*

Source notes

  1. 10:5 Leviticus 18:5; see also Ezekiel 20:11, 13, and 21. Read Leviticus 18:5 Read Ezekiel 20:11
  2. 10:6 Deuteronomy 30:12 Read Deuteronomy 30:12
  3. 10:7 See Deuteronomy 30:13. Read Deuteronomy 30:13
  4. 10:8 Deuteronomy 30:14 Read Deuteronomy 30:14
  5. 10:11 Isaiah 28:16 (see also LXX) Read Isaiah 28:16
  6. 10:13 Joel 2:32 Read Joel 2:32
  7. 10:15 Literally good news of good things; BYZ and TR How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of peace, who bring good news of good things; Isaiah 52:7 Read Isaiah 52:7
  8. 10:16 Isaiah 53:1 Read Isaiah 53:1
  9. 10:18 Psalms 19:4 (see also LXX) Read Psalms 19:4
  10. 10:19 Deuteronomy 32:21 (see also LXX) Read Deuteronomy 32:21
  11. 10:20 Isaiah 65:1 Read Isaiah 65:1
  12. 10:21 Isaiah 65:2 (see also LXX) Read Isaiah 65:2

Old Testament references

References from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Text from the Berean Standard Bible.

Leviticus 18:5

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:11

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

Deuteronomy 30:12

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

Deuteronomy 30:13

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

Deuteronomy 30:14

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

Isaiah 28:16

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

Joel 2:32

And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Psalms 19:4

their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Isaiah 65:1

“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

Isaiah 65:2

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

Exodus 32:10

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Exodus 32:13

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

1 Samuel 12:23

As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

1 Samuel 15:35

And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

Jeremiah 17:16

But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

2 Kings 10:16

saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.

Psalms 14:4

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

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