Romans 10

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1My Christian friends, I truly want God to save Israel's people. I pray to God that he will save them.

2I can say this about them: they really want to serve God well. But they do not understand the right way to do this.

3They have not understood the way that God accepts people. Instead, they have tried to make their own way to become right with God. They have refused to accept God's way that would make them right with him.

4God gave his Law to Israel's people for a purpose. Now Christ has done everything that the Law commanded. So every person who believes in Christ becomes right with God.

5Moses wrote about how God's Law could help people to be right with God. He said, ‘If a person obeys the rules in God's Law, then he will live by them.’

6But the Bible also speaks about another way. It shows how to become right with God because you trust him. It says: ‘Do not say to yourself, “Someone will have to go up into heaven.” ’ (That means, ‘Someone will have to bring Christ down from up there.’)

7‘Do not say to yourself either, “Someone will have to go down into the deep hole of death.” ’ (That means, ‘Someone will have to bring Christ up from the place where dead people are.’)

8Instead, the Bible says, ‘God's message is near you. You can talk about it, and you can think about it.’ That is the same message that we are teaching to people. We tell people to believe in Jesus Christ.

9The message is this: you must say clearly that Jesus is the Lord. Also, you must believe deep inside yourself that God raised him to life again after his death. Then God will save you.

10God accepts people as right with him when they believe like that, deep inside themselves. And when people say clearly that Jesus is Lord, God saves them.

11It says in the Bible, ‘Everyone who believes in him will not be disappointed.’

12It says ‘everyone’. There is no difference between Jews and Gentiles. There is the same Lord for all of us. He blesses everyone who asks him for help.

13As it says in the Bible: ‘Everyone who calls out to the Lord God for help will be safe.’

14But people will never ask Christ to help them if they have not believed in him. And they will never believe in him if they have not heard about him. And they will not hear about him unless somebody tells God's message to them.

15And nobody can tell God's message to people unless God sends them. This is written in the Bible: ‘When people arrive to tell us good news, we are happy to welcome them!’

16But not everyone who has heard the good news obeys its message. Isaiah said, ‘Lord God, it seems that nobody has believed our message.’

17So, people must hear the message before they can trust God. And people hear that message when someone tells them about Christ.

18Let me ask you this: ‘Did Israel's people hear that message?’ They certainly did! The Bible says: ‘People have spoken God's message everywhere. People have heard his message in every part of the world.’

19So I ask this too: ‘When Israel's people heard God's message, did they understand it?’ First, think about what Moses wrote. God said to Israel's people: ‘I will make you jealous because of people who are not my people. I will make you angry because of people who know nothing about me.’

20Also, this is what Isaiah said very bravely: ‘God says, “Those people who were not looking for me have found me. I showed myself to people who were not even asking about me.” ’

21But Isaiah says this about Israel's people: ‘God says, “For a very long time, I have been asking my people to return to me. But they refused to obey me. They turned against me.” ’

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