Romans 10:3-11:6

English Standard Version

³For, being ignorant of ^(A)the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. ⁴For ^(B)Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.^[a]

The Message of Salvation to All

⁵For ^(C)Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that ^(D)the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ⁶But ^(E)the righteousness based on faith says, ^(F)“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷“or ‘Who will descend into the ^(G)abyss?’” (that is, ^(H)to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸But what does it say? ^(I)“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); ⁹because, if ^(J)you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and ^(K)believe in your heart ^(L)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, ^(M)“Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ¹²^(N)For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; ^(O)for the same Lord is Lord of all, ^(P)bestowing his riches on all who call on him. ¹³For ^(Q)“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 ^(R)of whom they have never heard?^[b] And how are they to hear ^(S)without someone preaching? ¹⁵And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ^(T)“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” ¹⁶But ^(U)they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, ^(V)“Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” ¹⁷So ^(W)faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

¹⁸But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for

^(X)“Their voice has gone out ^(Y)to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”

¹⁹But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,

^(Z)“I will ^(AA)make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a ^(AB)foolish nation I will make you angry.”

²⁰Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,

^(AC)“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, ^(AD)“All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask, then, ^(AE)has God rejected his people? By no means! For ^(AF)I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,^[c] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. ²^(AG)God has not rejected his people whom he ^(AH)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? ³^(AI)“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” ⁴But what is God's reply to him? ^(AJ)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵So too at the present time there is ^(AK)a remnant, chosen by grace. ⁶^(AL)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.