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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Romans 10 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v45_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.1" class="v45_10_1">1</span>My friends, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them! </span><span class="v45_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.2" class="v45_10_2">2</span>I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge. </span><span class="v45_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.3" class="v45_10_3">3</span>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. </span><span class="v45_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.4" class="v45_10_4">4</span>For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.</span></p><h3 class="s">Salvation Is for All</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.5" class="v45_10_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: “Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live.” </span><span class="v45_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.6" class="v45_10_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> 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). </span><span class="v45_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.7" class="v45_10_7">7</span>“Nor are you to ask, Who will go down into the world below?” (that is, to bring Christ up from death). </span><span class="v45_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.8" class="v45_10_8">8</span>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. </span><span class="v45_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.9" class="v45_10_9">9</span>If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved. </span><span class="v45_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.10" class="v45_10_10">10</span>For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved. </span><span class="v45_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.11" class="v45_10_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” </span><span class="v45_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.12" class="v45_10_12">12</span>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. </span><span class="v45_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.13" class="v45_10_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> As the scripture says, “Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.14" class="v45_10_14">14</span>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? </span><span class="v45_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.15" class="v45_10_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> 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!” </span><span class="v45_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.16" class="v45_10_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But not all have accepted the Good News. Isaiah himself said, “Lord, who believed our message?” </span><span class="v45_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.17" class="v45_10_17">17</span>So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.18" class="v45_10_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But I ask: Is it true that they did not hear the message? Of course they did—for as the scripture says:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v45_10_18">“The sound of their voice went out to all the world;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v45_10_18">their words reached the ends of the earth.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v45_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.19" class="v45_10_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Again I ask: Did the people of Israel not understand? Moses himself is the first one to answer:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v45_10_19">“I will use a so-called nation</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v45_10_19">to make my people jealous;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v45_10_19">and by means of a nation of fools</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v45_10_19">I will make my people angry.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v45_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.20" class="v45_10_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And Isaiah is even bolder when he says,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v45_10_20">“I was found by those who were not looking for me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v45_10_20">I appeared to those who were not asking for me.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v45_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.10.21" class="v45_10_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.10.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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