English / ERV
Romans 10
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Brothers and sisters, what I want most is for all the people of Israel to be saved. That is my prayer to God.
- 2I can say this about them: They really try hard to follow God, but they don’t know the right way.
- 3They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.
- 4Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him is made right with God.
- 5Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, “The person who obeys these laws is the one who will have life through them.”[1]
- 6But this is what the Scriptures say about being made right through faith: “Don’t say to yourself, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’” (This means “Who will go up to heaven to get Christ and bring him down to earth?”)
- 7“And don’t say, ‘Who will go down into the world below?’” (This means “Who will go down to get Christ and bring him up from death?”)
- 8This is what the Scripture says: “God’s teaching is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart.”[2] It is the teaching of faith that we tell people.
- 9If you openly say, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved.
- 10Yes, we believe in Jesus deep in our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we openly say that we believe in him, and so we are saved.
- 11Yes, the Scriptures say, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed.”[3]
- 12It says this because there is no difference between those who are Jews and those who are not. The same Lord is the Lord of all people. And he richly blesses everyone who looks to him for help.