ROM C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16

UST ROM Chapter 10

10 My fellow believers, I strongly desire that God will save the Israelites. I also pray for him to save them! 2 This is because I personally confirm that they are zealous about God. However, they are not zealous based on fully knowing God. 3 This is because they are not aware of how God makes people righteous, and they try to make themselves righteous. This is why they refuse to subject themselves to the way God makes people righteous. 4 They were wrong to try to make themselves righteous, because Jesus the Messiah has ended the laws that God gave the Jews. Christ did this in order for God to make righteous anyone who trusts in Jesus.

5 Indeed, this is what Moses wrote in the Scriptures about being righteous by obeying the laws God gave the Jews: “The person who obeys all God’s laws perfectly will live eternally by doing so.” 6 However, this is what Moses said in the Scriptures about people becoming righteous by trusting in God, “Do not say to yourselves, ‘Surely no one can go up to heaven!’ ” (This refers to trying to make the Messiah come down to the earth.) 7 Moses also said not to say, “Surely no one can go down into the bottomless pit!” (This refers to trying to make the Messiah become alive again after he had died.) 8 However, Moses also said this in the Scriptures about people becoming righteous by trusting in God, “You can easily know what God said. You can proclaim it and know it personally.” This refers to what God said about trusting in him. This is what we believers in the Messiah keep announcing. 9 What we keep announcing is that God will save any of you who verbally acknowledges that Jesus is the Lord over all things and personally trusts that God made Jesus become alive again after he had died. 10 This is true because God makes righteous anyone who personally trusts in Jesus, and he saves anyone who verbally acknowledges that Jesus is the Lord. 11 Indeed, this is what God said in the Scriptures, “God will not humiliate anyone who trusts in that person.” 12 Indeed, the Lord Jesus does not discriminate between Jewish people and non-Jewish people. This is because Jesus is the same Lord who rules over everyone. He generously blesses all people who call out to him to save them. 13 Indeed, Joel wrote in the Scriptures, “God will save all people who call out to the Lord to save them.”

14 So, people certainly will not call out for the Lord Jesus to save them if they do not trust in him. And people certainly will not trust in Jesus if they have not heard about him. And people certainly will not hear about Jesus if someone does not proclaim to them who he is. 15 And certainly people would not proclaim to other people who Jesus is unless someone sends them out! This is what Isaiah meant when he wrote in the Scriptures, “It is a beautiful thing when people go and declare to other people the good news about good things!” 16 However, not all Jews accepted the good news about Jesus. Indeed, this is what Isaiah meant when he said in the Scriptures, “Lord, no one trusts what we say!” 17 So then, a person can only trust in Jesus by hearing about him. And a person can only hear about Jesus through hearing the message that is about the Messiah. 18 However, this is what I say, “The Jews most definitely heard the message!” It is a fact. As David wrote in the Scriptures, “The heavenly bodies are like witnesses and everyone throughout the entire world could hear what they said.”

19 This is also what I say, “The people of Israel most definitely understood the message!” God first said through Moses in the Scriptures, “I will personally make you envious and angry by using a nation that does not belong to me and does not even know me.” 20 Moreover, God quite boldly declared through Isaiah in the Scriptures, “I revealed myself to those non-Jewish people who were not interested in knowing me and did not even ask about me.”

21 However, God told the people of Israel in the Scriptures, “I am always inviting you to know me, but you constantly disobey and oppose me!”

ROM C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16