Romans 10 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Fratres, voluntas quidem cordis mei, et obsecratio ad Deum, fit pro illis in salutem.
1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
2 Testimonium enim perhibeo illis quod æmulationem Dei habent, sed non secundum scientiam.
2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 Ignorantes enim justitiam Dei, et suam quærentes statuere, justitiæ Dei non sunt subjecti.
3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 Finis enim legis, Christus, ad justitiam omni credenti.
4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 Moyses enim scripsit, quoniam justitiam, quæ ex lege est, qui fecerit homo, vivet in ea.
5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
6 Quæ autem ex fide est justitia, sic dicit: Ne dixeris in corde tuo: Quis ascendet in cælum? id est, Christum deducere:
6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);
7 aut, Quis descendet in abyssum? hoc est, Christum a mortuis revocare.
7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
8 Sed quid dicit Scriptura? Prope est verbum in ore tuo, et in corde tuo: hoc est verbum fidei, quod prædicamus.
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:
9 Quia si confitearis in ore tuo Dominum Jesum, et in corde tuo credideris quod Deus illum suscitavit a mortuis, salvus eris.
9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 Corde enim creditur ad justitiam: ore autem confessio fit ad salutem.
10 For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
11 Dicit enim Scriptura: Omnis qui credit in illum, non confundetur.
11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
12 Non enim est distinctio Judæi et Græci: nam idem Dominus omnium, dives in omnes qui invocant illum.
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
13 Omnis enim quicumque invocaverit nomen Domini, salvus erit.
13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 Quomodo ergo invocabunt, in quem non crediderunt? aut quomodo credent ei, quem non audierunt? quomodo autem audient sine prædicante?
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
15 quomodo vero prædicabunt nisi mittantur? sicut scriptum est: Quam speciosi pedes evangelizantium pacem, evangelizantium bona !
15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
16 Sed non omnes obediunt Evangelio. Isaias enim dicit: Domine, quis credidit auditui nostro?
16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
17 Ergo fides ex auditu, auditus autem per verbum Christi.
17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 Sed dico: Numquid non audierunt? Et quidem in omnem terram exivit sonus eorum, et in fines orbis terræ verba eorum.
18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
19 Sed dico: Numquid Israël non cognovit? Primus Moyses dicit: Ego ad æmulationem vos adducam in non gentem: in gentem insipientem, in iram vos mittam.
19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”
20 Isaias autem audet, et dicit: Inventus sum a non quærentibus me: palam apparui iis qui me non interrogabant.
20 Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
21 Ad Israël autem dicit: Tota die expandi manus meas ad populum non credentem, et contradicentem.
21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Cross references (21)
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- 1 1 Corinthians 9:20–22; John 5:34; Romans 9:1–3; Exodus 32:13; Jeremiah 18:20
- 2 Acts 21:20; Romans 9:31–32; Proverbs 19:2; Philippians 1:9; Philippians 3:6
- 3 Luke 16:15; Philippians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Revelation 3:17–18; Romans 5:19
- 4 Galatians 3:24; Romans 8:3–4; Matthew 5:17–18; Acts 13:38–39; John 1:17
- 5 Leviticus 18:5; Nehemiah 9:29; Ezekiel 20:11; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:21
- 6 Deuteronomy 30:11–14; Proverbs 30:4; Ephesians 4:8–10; John 3:12–13; John 6:58
- 7 Hebrews 13:20; Revelation 1:18; Romans 4:25
- 8 Deuteronomy 30:14; Romans 1:16–17; 1 Timothy 4:6; 1 Peter 1:25; Galatians 3:2
- 9 Luke 12:8; Acts 16:31; Philippians 2:11; Matthew 10:32–33; 1 John 4:2–3
- 10 1 John 4:15; Romans 10:9; Galatians 2:16; John 1:12–13; John 3:19–21
- 11 Isaiah 28:16; Romans 9:33; 1 Peter 2:6; Isaiah 49:23; Jeremiah 17:7
- 12 Philippians 4:19; Revelation 17:14; Galatians 3:28; Romans 3:22; Colossians 3:11
- 13 Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32
- 14 Mark 16:15–16; Acts 26:17–18; Titus 1:3; Acts 8:31; Hebrews 11:6
- 15 Isaiah 52:7; Nahum 1:15; Ephesians 2:17; Matthew 28:18–20; Isaiah 61:1
- 16 Isaiah 53:1; Romans 3:3; John 12:38–40; Hebrews 4:2; Galatians 5:7
- 17 Galatians 3:2; Galatians 3:5; Colossians 3:16; Luke 11:28; 1 Thessalonians 2:13
- 18 Psalm 19:4; Matthew 24:14; Romans 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Colossians 1:23
- 19 Deuteronomy 32:21; Romans 11:11; Romans 11:14; 1 Peter 2:10; Titus 3:3
- 20 Isaiah 65:1–2; Romans 9:30; Isaiah 55:4–5; Matthew 22:9–10; Isaiah 49:6
- 21 Isaiah 65:2–5; Proverbs 1:24; Jeremiah 35:15; Matthew 21:33–43; Nehemiah 9:26
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He is now going again to rebuke them more vehemently than before. Wherefore he again does away with every suspicion of hatred, and makes a great effort beforehand to correct misapprehension. Do not then, he says, mind words or accusations, but observe that it is not in any hostile spirit that I say this.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
And again, when Paul says, "How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace," he shows clearly that it was not merely one, but there were many who used to preach the truth.
"But how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? or how shall they believe without a preacher?" And those who seek the Lord shall praise Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… I know nothing by myself," saith one, "yet am I not hereby justified:" --both for what we have done in ignorance, and what in knowledge; "For I bear them record," it is said, "that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge;" but yet this doth not suffice for an excuse for them.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And again he aims at them, and speaks thus, Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven; or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to bring up Christ from the dead; and in like manner warning as he has elsewhere written again, Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead; and again, And if Christ be …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)