MODERN LITERAL VERSION

10:1 Brethren, indeed the delight of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is *for their salvation.
10:2 For* I testify of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to full knowledge.
10:3 For* being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For* Christ is the end of the law *for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5 For* Moses writes of the righteousness which is from the law, ‘That the man who practices those things will live by them.' {Lev. 18:5 Ezek. 20:11}
10:6 But the righteousness which is from faith says thus, ‘Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven?' (That is, to bring Christ down.)
10:7 Or, ‘Who will come down into the abyss?' (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)
10:8 But what does it say? ‘The declaration is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.' {Deut. 30:12-14?} This is the declaration of the faith which we are preaching:
10:9 that if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth and if you believe in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved;
10:10 for* it is being believed with the heart toward righteousness and it is being confessed with the mouth toward salvation.
10:11 For* the Scripture says, ‘Everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.' {Is. 28:16}
10:12 For* there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for* the same Lord is Lord of all and is rich to all who is calling upon him;
10:13 for* everyone, ‘Whomever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.' {Joel 2:32}
10:14 Then* how will they call on him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe in him whom they have not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching?
10:15 But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!' {Is. 52:7}

10:16 But they did not all obey* the good-news. For* Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who has believed our report?' {Is. 53:1}
10:17 Consequently, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the declaration of God.
10:18 But I say, ‘Did they not hear?' But-rather, ‘Their sounds went out into all the earth and their declarations to the ends of the inhabited-earth.' {Ps. 19:4}
10:19 But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses says, ‘I will provoke you* to jealousy with what is no nation. I will rouse you* to anger with a nation which has no understanding.' {Deut. 32:21}
10:20 Now Isaiah is very daring and says, ‘I was found by those who are not seeking me. I became manifest to those who are not asking for me.' {Is. 65:1}
10:21 But as to Israel he says, ‘All the day long I outstretch my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.' {Is. 65:2}