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Romans 10:4-14

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4 The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it.
4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it's not so easy - every detail of life regulated by fine print!
5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”
6 But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story - no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah,
6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down)
7 no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah.
7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8 So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest.
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:
9 Say the welcoming word to God - "Jesus is my Master" - embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation.
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!"
10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
11 Scripture reassures us, "No one who trusts God like this - heart and soul - will ever regret it."
11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
12 It's exactly the same no matter what a person's religious background may be: the same God for all of us, acting the same incredibly generous way to everyone who calls out for help.
12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,
13 "Everyone who calls, 'Help, God!' gets help."
13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 But how can people call for help if they don't know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them?
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
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