Romans 10

¹Brothers , my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved .

²For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God , but not according to knowledge .

³For , being ignorant of the righteousness of God , and seeking to establish their own , they did not submit to God’s righteousness .

⁴For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes .

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law , that the person who does the commandments shall live by them .

⁶But the righteousness based on faith says , Do not say in your heart , Who will ascend into heaven ? (that is , to bring Christ down )

⁷or Who will descend into the abyss ? (that is , to bring Christ up from the dead ).

⁸But 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 );

⁹because , 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 .

¹⁰For with the heart one believes and is justified , and with the mouth one confesses and is saved .

¹¹For the Scripture says , Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame .

¹²For 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 .

¹³For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved .

¹⁴How 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 ? And how are they to hear without someone preaching ?

¹⁵And 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 !

¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the gospel . For Isaiah says , Lord , who has believed what he has heard from us ?

¹⁷So faith comes from hearing , and hearing through the word of Christ .

¹⁸But I ask , have they not heard ? Indeed they have, for Their voice has gone out to all the earth , and their words to the ends of the world .

¹⁹But I ask , did Israel not understand ? First Moses says , I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation ; with a foolish nation I will make you angry .

²⁰Then Isaiah is so bold as to say , I have been found by those who did not seek me ; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me .

²¹But of Israel he says , All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people .