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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 10 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Romans 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/9.htm" title="Romans 9">◄</a> Romans 10 <a href="../romans/11.htm" title="Romans 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/romans/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Person who Believes will be Saved</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God about the Jews<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:1 Lit. on behalf of them">a</a></span> is that they would be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God’s means to attain<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:3 The Gk. lacks means to attain">b</a></span> righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Or Christ">c</a></span> is the culmination<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:4 Or end">d</a></span> of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: “The person who obeys these things will find life by them.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lev 18:5">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But the righteousness that comes from faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (that is, to bring the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:6 Or Christ">f</a></span> down), <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>or ‘Who will go down into the depths?’ (that is, to bring the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:7 Or Christ">g</a></span> back from the dead).”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But what does it say? “The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:8 Cf. Deut 9:4; 30:12-14">h</a></span> This is the message about faith that we are proclaiming: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For one believes with his heart and is justified, and declares with his mouth and is saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 Isa 28:16">i</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:13 MT source citation reads LORD">j</a></span> will be saved.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:13 Cf. Joel 2:32">k</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How, then, can people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:14 Lit. they">l</a></span> call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And how can people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:15 Lit. they">m</a></span> preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:15 Lit. are the feet of">n</a></span> those who bring the good news!”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:15 Isa 52:7">o</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But not everyone has obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah asks, “Lord, who has believed our message?”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:16 Isa 53:1">p</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Consequently, faith results from listening, and listening results through the word of the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:17 Or Christ; other mss. read of God">q</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But I ask, “Didn’t they hear?” Certainly they did! In fact,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“Their voice has gone out into the whole world,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">and their words to the ends of the earth.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:18 Cf. Ps 19:4">r</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Again I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” Moses was the first to say,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“I will make you jealous</p> <p class="poetry2">by those who are not a nation;</p> <p class="poetry2">I will make you angry</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">by a nation that doesn’t understand.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:19 Cf. Deut 32:21">s</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Isaiah boldly says,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“I was found by those who were not looking for me;</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">I was revealed to those who were not asking for me.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:20 Cf. Isa 65:1">t</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But about Israel he says,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“All day long I have held out my hands</p> <p class="poetry2">to a disobedient and rebellious people.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:21 Cf. Isa 65:2 (LXX)">u</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:1 Lit. <i>on behalf of them</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:3 The Gk. lacks <i>means to attain</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:4 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:4 Or <i>end</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:5 Lev 18:5<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 10:6 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 10:7 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 10:8 Cf. Deut 9:4; 30:12-14<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 10:11 Isa 28:16<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 10:13 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 10:13 Cf. Joel 2:32<br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 10:14 Lit. <i>they</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 10:15 Lit. <i>they</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 10:15 Lit. <i>are the feet of</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 10:15 Isa 52:7<br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 10:16 Isa 53:1<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 10:17 Or <i>Christ</i>;other mss. read <i>of God</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 10:18 Cf. Ps 19:4<br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 10:19 Cf. Deut 32:21<br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 10:20 Cf. Isa 65:1<br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 10:21 Cf. 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