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10:1  Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire is for Israel’s salvation. That’s my prayer to God for them.
10:2  I can vouch for them: they are enthusiastic about God. However, it isn’t informed by knowledge.
10:3  They don’t submit to God’s righteousness because they don’t understand his righteousness, and they try to establish their own righteousness.
10:4  Christ is the goal of the Law, which leads to righteousness for all who have faith in God.
10:5  Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law: The person who does these things will live by them.
10:6  But the righteousness that comes from faith talks like this: Don’t say in your heart, “Who will go up into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down)
10:7  or “Who will go down into the region below?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
10:8  But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the message of faith that we preach).
10:9  Because if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and in your heart you have faith that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10:10  Trusting with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation.
10:11  The scripture says, All who have faith in him won’t be put to shame.
10:12  There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord is Lord of all, who gives richly to all who call on him.
10:13  All who call on the Lord’s name will be saved.
10:14  So how can they call on someone they don’t have faith in? And how can they have faith in someone they haven’t heard of? And how can they hear without a preacher?
10:15  And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the good news.
10:16  But everyone hasn’t obeyed the good news. As Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our message?
10:17  So, faith comes from listening, but it’s listening by means of Christ’s message.
10:18  But I ask you, didn’t they hear it? Definitely! Their voice has gone out into the entire earth, and their message has gone out to the corners of the inhabited world.
10:19  But I ask you again, didn’t Israel understand? First, Moses says, I will make you jealous of those who aren’t a people, of a people without understanding.
10:20  And Isaiah even dares to say, I was found by those who didn’t look for me; I revealed myself to those who didn’t ask for me.
10:21  But he says about Israel, All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.