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Romans 10

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1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
1 My friends, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them!
2 For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
2 I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.
3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
3 They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.
4 For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.
5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
5 Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: "Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live."
6 But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)
6 But what the scripture says about being put right with God through faith is this: "You are not to ask yourself, Who will go up into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down).
7 Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)
7 "Nor are you to ask, Who will go down into the world below?" (that is, to bring Christ up from death).
8 But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:
8 What it says is this: "God's message is near you, on your lips and in your heart" - that is, the message of faith that we preach.
9 Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:
9 If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
10 For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.
11 Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.
11 The scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
12 And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:
12 This includes everyone, because there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.
13 Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.
13 As the scripture says, "Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved."
14 But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?
14 But how can they call to him for help if they have not believed? And how can they believe if they have not heard the message? And how can they hear if the message is not proclaimed?
15 And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.
15 And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!"
16 But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?
16 But not all have accepted the Good News. Isaiah himself said, "Lord, who believed our message?"
17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
17 So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.
18 But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
18 But I ask: Is it true that they did not hear the message? Of course they did - for as the scripture says: "The sound of their voice went out to all the world; their words reached the ends of the earth."
19 But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.
19 Again I ask: Did the people of Israel not understand? Moses himself is the first one to answer: "I will use a so-called nation to make my people jealous; and by means of a nation of fools I will make my people angry."
20 And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.
20 And Isaiah is even bolder when he says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I appeared to those who were not asking for me."
21 But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.
21 But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people."
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.