Romans 10

Wycliffe Bible

10 Brethren, the will of mine heart and my beseeching is made to God for them into health.

² But I bear witnessing to them [Forsooth I bear witnessing to them], that they have the love of God, but not after knowing.

³ For they not knowing God's rightwiseness [For they unknowing God's rightwiseness], and seeking to make steadfast their own rightwiseness, be not subject to the rightwiseness of God.

⁴ For the end of the law is Christ, to rightwiseness to each man that believeth.

⁵ For Moses wrote, For the man that shall do rightwiseness that is of the law, shall live in it.

⁶ But the rightwiseness that is of belief, saith thus, Say thou not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? that is to say, to lead down Christ;

⁷ or who shall go down into hell? that is, to again-call Christ from death.^[a]

⁸ But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh in thy mouth, and in thine heart; this is the word of belief, which we preach.

⁹ That if thou acknowledge in thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believest in thine heart, that God raised him from death [that God raised him from dead], thou shalt be safe.

¹⁰ For by heart me believeth to rightwiseness [Forsooth by heart men believeth to rightwiseness], but by mouth acknowledging is made to health.

¹¹ For why the scripture saith, Each that believeth in him, shall not be confounded.

¹² And there is no distinction of Jew and of Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich into all, that inwardly call him [that in-call him].

¹³ For each man, whoever shall inwardly call [whoever shall in-call] the name of the Lord, shall be safe.

¹⁴ How then shall they inwardly call him [How therefore shall they in-call him], into whom they have not believed? or how shall they believe to him, whom they have not heard? How shall they hear, without a preacher?

¹⁵ and how shall they preach, but they be sent? As it is written, How fair be the feet of them that preach peace, of them that preach good things [As it is written, How fair the feet of men evangelizing peace, of preaching good things].

¹⁶ But not all men obey to the gospel [But not all obey to the gospel]. For Esaias saith, Lord, who believed to our hearing?

¹⁷ Therefore faith is of hearing [Therefore faith by hearing], but hearing by the word of Christ.

¹⁸ But I say, Whether they heard not? Yes, soothly the sound of them went out into all the earth, and their words into the ends of the world.

¹⁹ But I say, Whether Israel knew not? First Moses saith, I shall lead you to envy, that ye be no folk; that ye be an unwise folk, I shall send you into wrath [First Moses saith, I shall lead you to envy, into not a folk; into an unwise folk, I shall send you into wrath].

²⁰ And Esaias is bold, and saith, I am found of men that seek me not; openly I appeared to them, that asked not me.

²¹ But to Israel he saith, All day I stretched out mine hands to a people that believed not, but gainsaid me. [Forsooth to Israel, he saith, All day I stretched out my hands to a people not believing to me, but again-saying to me.]