Romans 9:25-10:12

New King James Version

²⁵As He says also in Hosea:

^(A)“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
²⁶“And^(B) it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”

²⁷Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:

^(C)“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
^(D)The remnant will be saved.
²⁸For ^[a]He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
^(E)Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

²⁹And as Isaiah said before:

^(F)“Unless the Lord of ^[b]Sabaoth had left us a seed,
^(G)We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Present Condition of Israel

³⁰What shall we say then? ^(H)That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, ^(I)even the righteousness of faith; ³¹but Israel, ^(J)pursuing the law of righteousness, ^(K)has not attained to the law ^[c]of righteousness. ³²Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, ^[d]by the works of the law. For ^(L)they stumbled at that stumbling stone. ³³As it is written:

^(M)“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
And ^(N)whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

Israel Needs the Gospel

10 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for ^[e]Israel is that they may be saved. ²For I bear them witness ^(O)that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³For they being ignorant of ^(P)God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own ^(Q)righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. ⁴For ^(R)Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, ^(S)“The man who does those things shall live by them.” ⁶But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, ^(T)“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) ⁷or, ^(U)“ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸But what does it say? ^(V)“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): ⁹that ^(W)if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹For the Scripture says, ^(X)“Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” ¹²For ^(Y)there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for ^(Z)the same Lord over all ^(AA)is rich to all who call upon Him.