1Brothers,1 my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 2For I bear them witness that bthey have a zeal for God, cbut not according to knowledge. 3For, being ignorant of dthe righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4For eChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.2
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5For fMoses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that gthe person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6But hthe righteousness based on faith says, i“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the jabyss?’” (that is, kto bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say? l“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9because, if myou confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and nbelieve in your heart othat 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, p“Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12qFor there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; rfor the same Lord is Lord of all, sbestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13For t“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 uof whom they have never heard?3 And how are they to hear vwithout someone preaching? 15And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, w“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16But xthey have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, y“Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17So zfaith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
18But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
a“Their voice has gone out bto all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”
19But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
c“I will dmake you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a efoolish nation I will make you angry.”
20Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
f“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, g“All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
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Romans 10:1–21 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 40:16 • ID: 2811Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.