Romans 10:9

For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from 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

8No, but what does it say? ‘The message is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (which means ‘The message of faith’ which we proclaim).

10For with their hearts people believe and so attain to righteousness, while with their lips they make their profession of faith and so find salvation.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:32Everyone, therefore, who will publicly acknowledge me, I, too, will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven;

John 6:69and we have learned to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 12:42Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, because of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, because they were afraid that they should be expelled from their synagogues;

Acts 2:24But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold on him.

Acts 16:31“Believe in Jesus, our Lord,” they replied, “and you will be saved, you and your household too.”

Romans 14:11For scripture says – ‘“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise 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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