Rimanom 10

1 Bratia, z celého srdca túžim a Boha za nich prosím, aby boli spasení.2 Veď im môžem dosvedčiť, že horlia za Boha, ale nie podľa pravého poznania;3 keďže nepoznajú Božiu spravodlivosť a usilujú sa postaviť svoju spravodlivosť, nepodriadili sa Božej spravodlivosti.4 Veď cieľom zákona je Kristus, aby spravodlivosť dosiahol každý, kto verí.5 Mojžiš píše o spravodlivosti, ktorá je zo zákona: „Človek, ktorý ich bude plniť, bude z nich žiť.“6 Ale spravodlivosť, ktorá je z viery, vraví toto: „Nehovor vo svojom srdci: Kto vystúpi do neba?“, totiž priviesť dolu Krista;7 alebo: „Kto zostúpi do priepasti?“, totiž vyviesť Krista spomedzi mŕtvych.8 Ale čo hovorí? „Blízko teba je slovo, v tvojich ústach a v tvojom srdci;“ totiž slovo viery, ktoré hlásame.9 Lebo ak svojimi ústami vyznávaš: „Ježiš je Pán!“ a vo svojom srdci uveríš, že Boh ho vzkriesil z mŕtvych, budeš spasený.10 Lebo srdcom veríme na spravodlivosť a ústami vyznávame na spásu.11 Veď Písmo hovorí: „Nik, kto v neho verí, nebude zahanbený.“12 Niet rozdielu medzi Židom a Grékom, lebo ten istý je Pán všetkých, bohatý pre všetkých, ktorí ho vzývajú:13 Lebo každý, kto bude vzývať Pánovo meno, bude spasený.14 Ale ako budú vzývať toho, v ktorého neuverili? A ako uveria v toho, o ktorom nepočuli? A ako počujú bez kazateľa?15 A ako budú kázať, ak nie sú poslaní? Ako je napísané: „Aké krásne sú nohy tých, čo hlásajú dobrú zvesť.“16 Lenže nie všetci poslúchli evanjelium. Aj Izaiáš hovorí: „Pane, kto uveril tomu, čo sme hlásali?“17 Teda viera je z hlásania a hlásanie skrze Kristovo slovo.18 Ale spytujem sa: Azda nepočuli? Ale áno, po celej zemi rozlieha sa ich hlas a ich slová až po hranice sveta.19 Pýtam sa teda: Nepochopil to Izrael? Mojžiš prvý hovorí: „Vzbudím vo vás žiarlivosť skrze Nie národ: skrze nerozumný národ vás do hnevu popudím.“20 A Izaiáš sa odvažuje povedať: „Našli ma tí, čo ma nehľadali; verejne som sa zjavil tým, čo sa na mňa nedopytovali.“21 Izraelu však hovorí: „Celý deň som vystieral ruky k ľudu nevernému a vzdorovitému.“

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.”