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Romanos 10

1 Hermanos, ciertamente el anhelo de mi corazón, y mi oración a Dios es por la salvación de Israel,2 porque yo soy testigo de que tienen celo por Dios, pero no conforme al verdadero conocimiento.3 Ignorando la justicia de Dios y procurando establecer la suya propia, no se han sujetado a la justicia de Dios,

4 pues el fin de la Ley es Cristo, para justicia a todo aquel que cree.
5 Moisés escribe así de la justicia que es por la Ley: «El hombre que haga estas cosas vivirá por ellas.»6 Pero de la justicia que es por la fe, dice así: «No digas en tu corazón: “¿Quién subirá al cielo?” (Esto es, para traer abajo a Cristo.)7 Ni digas, “¿quién descenderá al abismo?” (Esto es, para hacer subir a Cristo de entre los muertos.)»8 Pero ¿qué dice?: «Cerca de ti está la palabra, en tu boca y en tu corazón.» Ésta es la palabra de fe que predicamos:9 Si confiesas con tu boca que Jesús es el Señor y crees en tu corazón que Dios lo levantó de entre los muertos, serás salvo,

10 porque con el corazón se cree para justicia, pero con la boca se confiesa para salvación.
11 La Escritura dice: «Todo aquel que en él cree, no será defraudado»,12 porque no hay diferencia entre judío y griego, pues el mismo que es Señor de todos, es rico para con todos los que lo invocan;

13 ya que todo aquel que invoque el nombre del Señor, será salvo.
14 ¿Cómo, pues, invocarán a aquel en el cual no han creído? ¿Y cómo creerán en aquel de quien no han oído? ¿Y cómo oirán sin haber quien les predique?

15 ¿Y cómo predicarán si no son enviados? Como está escrito: «¡Cuán hermosos son los pies de los que anuncian la paz, de los que anuncian buenas nuevas!»
16 Pero no todos obedecieron al evangelio, pues Isaías dice: «Señor, ¿quién ha creído a nuestro anuncio?»

17 Así que la fe es por el oír, y el oír, por la palabra de Dios.

18 Pero yo pregunto: ¿Acaso no han oído? Antes, bien,
«Por toda la tierra ha salido la voz de ellos
y hasta los fines de la tierra sus palabras.»

19 También pregunto: ¿No ha conocido esto Israel? Primeramente Moisés dice:
«Yo os provocaré a celos con un pueblo que no es pueblo;
con pueblo insensato os provocaré a ira.»

20 E Isaías dice resueltamente:
«Fui hallado por los que no me buscaban;
me manifesté a los que no preguntaban por mí.»

21 Pero acerca de Israel dice: «Todo el día extendí mis manos a un pueblo desobediente y rebelde.»

ROMANS 10

1 Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. 2 I know they love God, but they don't understand 3 what makes people acceptable to him. So they refuse to trust God, and they try to be acceptable by obeying the Law.

4 But Christ makes the Law no longer necessaryt for those who become acceptable to God by faith.

Anyone Can Be Saved


5  t Moses said a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, “If you want to live, you must do all the Law commands.”
6  t But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, “Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?”

7 Neither will they ask, “Who will go down into the world of the dead to raise him to life?”
8 All who are acceptable because of their faith simply say, “The message is as near as your mouth or your heart.” And this is the same message we preach about faith. 9 So you will be saved, if you honestly say, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe with all your heart that God raised him from death.

10 God will accept you and save you, if you truly believe this and tell it to others.
11  t The Scriptures say no one who has faith will be disappointed, 12 no matter if that person is a Jew or a Gentile. There is only one Lord, and he is generous to everyone who asks for his help.

13 t All who call out to the Lord will be saved.
14 How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them? 15 t And how can anyone tell them without being sent by the Lord? The Scriptures say it is a beautiful sight to see even the feet of someone coming to preach the good news.

16 t Yet not everyone has believed the message. For example, the prophet Isaiah asked, “Lord, has anyone believed what we said?”
17 No one can have faith without hearing the message about Christ.

18 t But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say,
“The message was told
everywhere on earth.
It was announced
all over the world.”

19  t Did the people of Israel understand or not? Moses answered this question when he told that the Lord had said,
“I will make Israel jealous
of people
who are a nation
of nobodies.
I will make them angry
with people
who don't understand
a thing.”

20  t Isaiah was fearless enough to tell that the Lord had said,
“I was found by people
who were not looking
for me.
I appeared to the ones
who were not asking
about me.”

21  t And Isaiah said about the people of Israel,
“All day long the Lord
has reached out
to people who are stubborn
and refuse to obey.”