Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
In Context
2For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Cross References
Luke 13:34Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.
Romans 9:1I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
Matthew Henry on Romans 10:1
The dissolving of the peculiar church-state of the Jews, and the rejection of that polity by the repealing of their ceremonial law, the vacating of all the institutions of it, the abolishing of their priesthood, the burning of their temple, and the taking away of their place and nation, and in their room the substituting and erecting of a catholic church-state among the Gentile nations, though to us, now that these things have long since been done and completed, they may seem no great matter, yet to those who… Read the whole commentary →