Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
2 For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
3 Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
- KJV
- Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
- WEB
- Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
- ASV
- Brethren, my heart`s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.
- DARBY
- Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation.
- BLB
- Brothers, indeed the good pleasure of my heart and [my] supplication to God on behalf of them [is] for salvation.
- ÅB
- Brødre, mitt hjertes ønske og min bønn til Gud for Israel er at de skal bli frelst.
- OTB
- Brødre og søstre, mitt hjertes ønske og min bønn til Gud for dem er at de må oppnå frelse.
- B1930
- Brødre! mitt hjertes ønske og min bønn til Gud for dem er at de må bli frelst.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 9:20–22
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.
Read in contextJohn 5:34
Even though I do not accept human testimony, I say these things so that you may be saved.
Read in contextRomans 9:1–3
I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
Read in contextExodus 32:13
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
Read in contextJeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:16
But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
Read in contextExodus 32:10
Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Read in contextLuke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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