Romans 10:2

Romans 10:2

Israel Needs the Gospel

1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for¹ Israel is that they may be saved.

2 For I bear them witness ^athat they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

3 For they being ignorant of ^aGod’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own ^brighteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

4 For ^aChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, ^a“The man who does those things shall live by them.”

6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, ^a“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above)

7 or, ^a“ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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For I bear them record—or, "witness," as he well could from his own sad experience.

that they have a zeal of—"for"

God, but not according to knowledge—(Compare Acts 22:3; Acts 26:9-11; Galatians 1:13-14). He alludes to this well-meaning of his people, notwithstanding their spiritual blindness, not certainly to excuse their rejection of Christ and rage against His saints, but as some ground of hope regarding them. (See I Timothy 1:13).

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