Romans 10

Faith-Righteousness

1My beloved brothers and sisters, the passionate desire of my heart and constant prayer to God is for my fellow Israelites to experience salvation. 2For I know that although they are deeply devoted to God, they are unenlightened. 3And since they’ve ignored the righteousness God gives, wanting instead to be acceptable to God because of their own works, they’ve refused to submit to God’s faith-righteousness. 4For Christ is the end of the law. # 10:4 Or “Christ is the goal of the law.” And because of him, God has transferred his perfect righteousness to all who believe.

5Moses wrote long ago about the need to obey every part of the law in order to be declared right with God:

“The one who obeys these things must always live by them.” # 10:5 Or “Whoever obeys these things will find life.” See Lev. 18:5.

6But we receive the faith-righteousness that speaks an entirely different message:

“Don’t for a moment think you need to climb into the heavens to find the Messiah and bring him down, 7or to descend into the underworld to bring him up from the dead.” # 10:7 See Deut. 30:12–13.

8But the faith-righteousness we receive speaks to us in these words of Moses:

“God’s living message is very close to you, as close as your own heart beating in your chest and as near as the tongue in your mouth.” # 10:8 See Deut. 30:14.

9And what is God’s “living message”? It is the revelation of faith for salvation, # 10:9 Or “word of faith.” which is the message that we preach. For if you publicly declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will experience salvation. 10The heart that believes in him receives the gift of the righteousness of God—and then the mouth confesses, resulting in salvation. 11For the Scriptures encourage us with these words:

“Everyone who believes in him will never be disappointed.” # 10:11 See Isa. 28:16.

Good News for All People

12So then faith eliminates the distinction between Jew and non-Jew, for he is the same Lord for all people. And he has enough treasures to lavish generously upon all who call on him. 13And it’s true:

“Everyone who calls on the Lord’s name

will experience new life.”

14But how can people call on him for help if they’ve not yet believed? And how can they believe in one they’ve not yet heard of? And how can they hear the message of life if there is no one there to proclaim it? 15And how can the message be proclaimed if messengers have yet to be sent? That’s why the Scriptures say:

How welcome is the arrival # 10:15 Or “how beautiful the feet.” The Greek word implies their arrival comes at just the right time. See Isa. 52:7; Nah. 1:15.

of those proclaiming the joyful news of peace

and of good things to come!

16But not everyone welcomes # 10:16 Or “obeys.” the good news, as Isaiah said:

Lord, is there anyone who hears

and believes our message? # 10:16 See Isa. 53:1.

17Faith, then, is birthed in a heart that responds to God’s anointed utterance of the Anointed One.

18Can it be that Israel hasn’t heard the message? No, they have heard it, for:

The voice has been heard throughout the world,

and its message has gone to the ends of the earth! # 10:18 See Ps. 19:4.

19So again I ask, didn’t Israel already understand that God’s message was for others as well as for themselves? # 10:19 Paul is confirming that God’s plan from the beginning was to give the message of salvation to all the nations. Yes, they certainly did understand, for Moses was the first # 10:19 Or “First Moses . . . then Isaiah (v. 20) confirms it.” to state it:

“I will make you jealous of a people who are ‘nobodies.’

And I will use people with no understanding

to provoke you to anger.” # 10:19 See Deut. 32:21. Those who are “nobodies” and the “people with no understanding” both refer to the gentile believers among the nations that have by faith entered into new life in Jesus.

20And Isaiah the fearless prophet dared to declare:

“Those who found me weren’t even seeking me.

I manifested # 10:20 The compound Greek word emphanes means “to make manifest,” “to appear in shining light,” “to be bright,” “to shine light upon,” “to come into view.” myself before those

who weren’t even asking to know me!” # 10:20 See Isa. 65:1.

21Yet regarding Israel Isaiah says:

“With love I have held out my hands day after day,

offering myself to this unbelieving

and stubborn people!” # 10:21 See Isa. 65:2.

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Romans 10

1Brothers and sisters, what I want most is for all the people of Israel to be saved. That is my prayer to God. 2I can say this about them: They really try hard to follow God, but they don’t know the right way. 3They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right. 4Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him is made right with God.

5Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, “The person who obeys these laws is the one who will have life through them.”#Quote from Lev. 18:5. 6But this is what the Scriptures say about being made right through faith: “Don’t say to yourself, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (This means “Who will go up to heaven to get Christ and bring him down to earth?”) 7“And don’t say, ‘Who will go down into the world below?’” (This means “Who will go down to get Christ and bring him up from death?”)

8This is what the Scripture says: “God’s teaching is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart.”#Quotes from Deut. 30:12-14. It is the teaching of faith that we tell people. 9If you openly say, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved. 10Yes, we believe in Jesus deep in our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we openly say that we believe in him, and so we are saved.

11Yes, the Scriptures say, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed.”#Quote from Isa. 28:16. 12It says this because there is no difference between those who are Jews and those who are not. The same Lord is the Lord of all people. And he richly blesses everyone who looks to him for help. 13Yes, “everyone who trusts in the Lord#10:13 who trusts in the Lord Literally, “who calls on the name of the Lord,” meaning to show faith in him by worshiping him or praying to him for help. will be saved.”#Quote from Joel 2:32.

14But before people can pray to the Lord for help, they must believe in him. And before they can believe in the Lord, they must hear about him. And for anyone to hear about the Lord, someone must tell them. 15And before anyone can go and tell them, they must be sent. As the Scriptures say, “How wonderful it is to see someone coming to tell good news!”#Quote from Isa. 52:7.

16But not all the people accepted that good news. Isaiah said, “Lord, who believed what we told them?”#Quote from Isa. 53:1. 17So faith comes from hearing the Good News. And people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

18But I ask, “Did those people not hear the Good News?” Yes, they heard—as the Scriptures say,

“Their voices went out all around the world.

Their words went everywhere in the world.” Psalm 19:4

19Again I ask, “Did the people of Israel not understand?” Yes, they did understand. First, Moses says this for God:

“I will use those who are not really a nation to make you jealous.

I will use a nation that does not understand to make you angry.” Deuteronomy 32:21

20Then Isaiah is bold enough to say this for God:

“The people who were not looking for me—

they are the ones who found me.

I made myself known to those who did not ask for me.” Isaiah 65:1

21But about the people of Israel God says,

“All day long I stood ready to accept those people,

but they are stubborn and refuse to obey me.” Isaiah 65:2

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