Romans 10:1
My friends, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for my people is for their salvation.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
In Context
2I can testify that they are zealous for the honor of God; but they are not guided by true insight,
Cross References
Luke 13:34Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to you – Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!
Romans 9:1I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by 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 →