Romans 10:9

that if you may confess with your mouth that Jesus [is] LORD, and may believe in your heart that God raised Him out of the dead, you will be saved,

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In The King James Version

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

In Context

8But what does it say? “The saying is near you—in your mouth, and in your heart”: that is, the saying of the faith that we preach;

10for with the heart [one] believes to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

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Cross References

Matthew 10:32Everyone, therefore, who will confess in Me before men, I also will confess in him before My Father who is in the heavens;

John 6:69and we have believed, and we have known, that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

John 12:42Still, however, out of the rulers many also believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having loosed the travails of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it;

Acts 16:31And they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

Romans 14:11for it has been written: “I live! Says the LORD—Every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God”;

Matthew Henry on Romans 10:2-12

Paul's Discourse of Righteousness; The Method of Salvation. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. 5 For Moses describeth… Read the whole commentary →

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