Romans 10:1
My brothers and sisters, my heart's desire—my prayer to God—is for the salvation of the people of Israel!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 32:13Remember you swore a promise your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, telling them, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, and give you all the land I promised to them, and they shall own it forever.’”
1 Samuel 15:11“I'm sorry I made Saul king, for he has given up following me and hasn't done as I ordered.” Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all through the night.
Jeremiah 17:16But I haven't been in a hurry to give up being your shepherd. I haven't wanted the time of trouble to come. You know that whatever I said was said in front of you.
Luke 13:34Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather all your children together just like a hen does with her chicks under her wings, but you refused!
Romans 9:1I am in Christ, and what I say is true. I'm not lying! My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm
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 →