Romans 10:1
My Brethren, The desire of my heart, and my intercession with God for them, is, that they might have life.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 bear them witness, that there is in them a zeal for God; but it is not according to knowledge.
Cross References
Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how many times would I have gathered thy children, as a hen that gathereth her young under her wings, and ye would not?
Romans 9:1I say the truth in Messiah, and do not misrepresent; and my conscience beareth me witness 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 →