Romans 10:1-8 ▼

1 Brethren, my hearty desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.

2 for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not guided by true knowledge.

3 because being ignorant of the justice which is of God, and going about to establish a justification of their own, they have not submitted themselves to that which is of God.

4 for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

5 For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus: "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

6 but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; "say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?

7 or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

8 what does it say "more? the word is nigh thee, let it be in thy mouth and in thy heart:" that is the word of faith which we preach.