Romans 9:30-10:13

Complete Jewish Bible

³⁰So, what are we to say? This: that Gentiles, even though they were not striving for righteousness, have obtained righteousness; but it is a righteousness grounded in trusting! ³¹However, Isra’el, even though they kept pursuing a Torah that offers righteousness, did not reach what the Torah offers. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue righteousness as being grounded in trusting but as if it were grounded in doing legalistic works. They stumbled over the stone that makes people stumble.^[a] ³³As the Tanakh puts it,

“Look, I am laying in Tziyon
a stone that will make people stumble,
a rock that will trip them up.
But he who rests his trust on it
will not be humiliated.”^[b]

10 Brothers, my heart’s deepest desire and my prayer to God for Isra’el is for their salvation; ²for I can testify to their zeal for God. But it is not based on correct understanding; ³for, since they are unaware of God’s way of making people righteous and instead seek to set up their own, they have not submitted themselves to God’s way of making people righteous. ⁴For the goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts. ⁵For Moshe writes about the righteousness grounded in the Torah that the person who does these things will attain life through them.^[c] ⁶Moreover, the righteousness grounded in trusting says:

“Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend to heaven?’” —

that is, to bring the Messiah down — ⁷or,

“‘Who will descend into Sh’ol?’” —

that is, to bring the Messiah up from the dead. ⁸What, then, does it say?

“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.”^[d] —

that is, the word about trust which we proclaim, namely, ⁹that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered. ¹⁰For with the heart one goes on trusting and thus continues toward righteousness, while with the mouth one keeps on making public acknowledgement and thus continues toward deliverance. ¹¹For the passage quoted says that everyone who rests his trust on him will not be humiliated.^[e] ¹²That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him, ¹³since everyone who calls on the name of Adonai will be delivered.^[f]