Romans 10:14-21
New Testament for Everyone
The call to the world, and the failure of Israel
14 So how are they to call on someone when they haven’t believed in him? And how are they to believe if they don’t hear? And how will they hear without someone announcing it to them? 15 And how will people make that announcement unless they are sent? As the Bible says, “How beautiful are the feet of the ones who bring good news of good things.”
16 But not all obeyed the good news. Isaiah asks, you see, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of the Messiah.
18 This might make us ask, did they not hear? But they certainly did:
Their sound went out into all the world,
and their words to the ends of the earth.
19 But I ask, did Israel not know? To begin with, Moses says,
I will make you jealous with a non-nation;
and stir you to anger with a foolish people.
20 Then Isaiah, greatly daring, puts it like this:
I was found by those who were not looking for me;
I became visible to those who were not asking for me.
21 But in respect of Israel he says,
All day long I have stretched out my hands
to a disbelieving and disagreeable people.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.
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