Romans 10:9–10
Confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in the resurrection
Study it word by word9that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10For with the heart one believes for righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses for salvation.
In its context
7or: Who will go down into the abyss? (that is, to bring up the Messiah from the dead).
8But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the word of faith that we proclaim:
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11For the Scripture says: Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.
12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, rich toward all who call on him.
Its words in the original
- ὁμολογήσῃςhomologēsēis· confess, acknowledge
Confess, acknowledge openly; declare.
- στόματίstomati· mouth
Mouth.
- κύριονkyrion· Lord, lord
Lord, master, owner. Said of God, the Lord; in Old Testament quotations it stands for the name YHWH.
- ἸησοῦνIēsoun· Jesus
Jesus, the Greek form of the Hebrew Yehoshua (Joshua), which means "YHWH saves". It is the name the angel told Joseph to give him (Matthew 1:21).
- πιστεύσῃςpisteusēis· believe
Believe, trust.
- καρδίᾳkardiai· heart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
- θεὸςtheos· God, god
God. In the plural or in another sense, "gods".
- ἤγειρενēgeiren· raise
Raise, wake up; get up; raise from the dead.
- νεκρῶνnekrōn· dead
Dead.
- σωθήσῃsōthēsēi· save
Save, rescue from danger or death; also heal from an illness.
- δικαιοσύνηνdikaiosynēn· righteousness
Righteousness: what is right before God, and living by it.
- σωτηρίανsōtērian· salvation
Salvation.