Romans 10

¹ Brothers, the desire of my heart and [my] prayer to God in their behalf [is] for salvation. ² For I testify to them that they have [the] zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own [justice], they have not submitted to the justice of God. ⁴ For the end of the law [is] Christ for justice to everyone believing. ⁵ For Moses writes that: The man having done the justice of the law shall zoe-live¹ in them. ⁶ But the justice from belief he says thus: You should not say in your heart, who shall ascend into heaven? That is, to bring Christ down. ⁷ Or, Who will descend into the abyss²? That is, to bring Christ up from the dead. ⁸ But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart—that is, the word of faith which we proclaim. ⁹ For if you profess with your mouth [the] Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with [the] heart one believes for justice, but with [the] mouth one professes for salvation. ¹¹ For everyone believing upon him will not be shamed. ¹² For there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, for he [is] Lord of all, being rich to all calling upon him. ¹³ For everyone who has called upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ How therefore may they call upon whom they have not believed? And how may they hear apart from [one] proclaiming? ¹⁵ And how may they proclaim unless they be sent? Just as it is written:

How lovely [are] the feet of those good-newsing peace,
Of those good-newsing good [things].

¹⁶ But not all have obeyed the good-news. For Isaiah says:

O Lord, who has believed our report?

¹⁷ Therefore belief [is] from hearing, and hearing through [the] word of Christ. ¹⁸ But I say, have they not heard? Rather:

Unto all the land their sound went out,
And to the four limits of the inhabited-world their words.

¹⁹ But I say, has Israel not known? First Moses says,

I will provoke you to jealousy upon [those who are] not [a] nation,
Upon [an] unintelligent nation will I anger you.

²⁰ But Isaiah is bold and says,

I was found by those not seeking me,
I have become visible to those not asking me.

²¹ But to Israel he says:

The whole day have I stretched out my hands
To [a] people being disobedient and contradictory.

¹from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

²or "underworld" version 3.85.
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