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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" /><title>Romans 10 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Brothers,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Brothers and sisters">a</a></sup></span> my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or end of the law, that everyone who believes may be justified">b</a></sup></span></p> <p class="heading">The Message of Salvation to All</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>because, if you confess 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 with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or him whom they have never heard">c</a></sup></span> And how are they to hear without someone preaching? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Their voice has gone out to all the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their words to the ends of the world.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;</span><br /><span class="indent">with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“I have been found by those who did not seek me;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>Brothers and sisters</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">end of the law</span>, that everyone who believes may be justified</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">him</span> whom they have never heard</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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