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* [9:32] Paul discusses Israel as a whole from the perspective of contemporary Jewish rejection of Jesus as Messiah. The Old Testament and much of Jewish noncanonical literature in fact re ect a fervent faith in divine mercy.
* [10:1–13] Despite Israel’s lack of faith in God’s act in Christ, Paul does not abandon hope for her salvation (Rom 10:1). However, Israel must recognize that the Messiah’s arrival in the person of Jesus Christ means the termination of the Mosaic law as the criterion for understanding oneself in a valid relationship to God. Faith in God’s saving action in Jesus Christ takes precedence over any such legal claim (Rom 10:6).
* [10:4] The Mosaic legislation has been superseded by God’s action in Jesus Christ. Others understand end here in the sense that Christ is the goal of the law, i.e., the true meaning of the Mosaic law, which cannot be correctly understood apart from him. Still others believe that both meanings are intended.
* [10:5–6] The subject of the verb says (Rom 10:6) is righteousness personi ed. Both of the statements in Rom 10:5, 6 derive from Moses, but Paul wishes to contrast the language of law and the language of faith.
* [10:7] Here Paul blends Dt 30:13 and Ps 107:26.
* [10:9–11] To confess Jesus as Lord was frequently quite hazardous in the rst century (cf. Mt
10:18; 1 Thes 2:2; 1 Pt 2:18–21; 3:14). For a Jew it could mean disruption of normal familial and other social relationships, including great economic sacri ce. In the face of penalties imposed by the secular world, Christians are assured that no one who believes in Jesus will be put to shame (Rom 10:11).
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Righteousness Based on Faith.* 30What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have achieved it, that is, righteousness that comes from faith;x 31but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?y 32Why not? Because they did it not by faith, but as if it could be done by works.z They stumbled over the stone that causes stumbling,* 33as it is written:
“Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion that will make people stumble and a rock that will make them fall,
and whoever believes in him shall not be put to shame.”a
1* Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on their behalf
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is for salvation.a 2I testify with regard to them that they have zeal for God, but it is not discerning.b 3For, in their unawareness of the righteousness that comes from God and their attempt to establish their own [righteousness], they did not submit to the righteousness of God.c 4For Christ is the end* of the law for the justi cation of everyone who has faith.d
5* Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from [the] law, “The one who does these things will live by them.”e 6But the righteousness that comes from faith says,f “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down) 7* or ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”g 8But what does it say?
“The word is near you,
in your mouth and in your heart”h
(that is, the word of faith that we preach), 9for, if you confess* with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.i 10For one believes with the heart and so is justi ed, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. 11For the scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”j 12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, enriching all who call upon him.k 13For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”l
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Our salvation no longer comes from performing all the works outlined in the law but from faith in Jesus Christ. The faith we profess with our lips starts from the heart.
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x. [9:30] 10:4, 20.
y. [9:31] 10:3.
z. [9:32] Is 8:14.
a. [9:33] Is 28:16; 1 Pt 2:6–8.
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a. [10:1] 9:1, 3.
b. [10:2] Acts 22:3.
c. [10:3] 9:31–32; Phil 3:9.
d. [10:4] Acts 13:38–39; 2 Cor 3:14; Heb 8:13.
e. [10:5] Lv 18:5; Gal 3:12.
f. [10:6] Dt 9:4; 30:12.
g. [10:7] Dt 30:13; 1 Pt 3:19.
h. [10:8] Dt 30:14.
i. [10:9] 1 Cor 12:3.
j. [10:11] 9:33; Is 28:16.
k. [10:12] 1:16; 3:22, 29; Acts 10:34; 15:9, 11;
Gal 3:28; Eph 2:14.
l. [10:13] Jl 3:5; Acts 2:21.
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