⁸ But what does it say? ^(A)“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); ⁹ because, if ^(B)you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and ^(C)believe in your heart ^(D)that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, ^(E)“Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ^12 (F)For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; ^(G)for the same Lord is Lord of all, ^(H)bestowing his riches on all who call on him. ¹³ For ^(I)“everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

¹⁴ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him ^(J)of whom they have never heard?^[a] And how are they to hear ^(K)without someone preaching?

⁸ Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not ^(A)worthy. ⁹ Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ ¹⁰ And those servants went out into the roads and ^(B)gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.