Romans 10

¹Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and request to God concerning them is for their salvation.

²For I can testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not based on the knowledge of the truth.

³Since they are disregarding the righteousness that comes from God and are seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

⁴For Christ is the fulfillment of the law, with the result that now there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: The person who does these commandments will live by them.

⁶But the righteousness that is based on trust speaks in this way: Do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven (that is, in order to bring Christ down),

⁷or, Who will descend into the abyss (that is, in order to bring Christ up from among the dead).

⁸On the contrary, what does it say? The message (that is, the message about trust that we are proclaiming) is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart,

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

¹⁰For a person believes with their heart, resulting in righteousness, and a person confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

¹¹For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame,

¹²since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him;

¹³for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

¹⁴How then can they call on him if they have not believed in him? And how can they believe in him if they have not heard of him? And how can they hear without someone proclaiming it?

¹⁵And how are they to proclaim it unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news about good things!

¹⁶(But they did not all obey the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?)

¹⁷So then, trust comes from hearing, and hearing comes through the message about Christ.

¹⁸But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Indeed, they have: Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.

¹⁹But I ask, “Did Israel not know?” First, Moses says, I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that lacks understanding.

²⁰And Isaiah is so bold as to say, I was found by those who were not seeking me. I have revealed myself to those who were not asking for me.

²¹But about Israel he says, All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and argumentative people.