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# Romans 10

Romans 10 is chapter 10 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The end of the law is faith in Christ. which the Jews refusing to submit to, cannot be justified.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Brothers, certainly the will of my heart, and my prayer to God, is for them unto salvation.
2. For I offer testimony to them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3. For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice of God.
4. For the end of the law, Christ, is unto justice for all who believe.
5. And Moses wrote, about the justice that is of the law, that the man who will have done justice shall live by justice.
6. But the justice that is of faith speaks in this way: Do not say in your heart: “Who shall ascend into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down);
7. “Or who shall descend into the abyss?” (that is, to call back Christ from the dead).
8. But what does Scripture say? “The word is near, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith, which we are preaching.
9. For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.
10. For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation.
11. For Scripture says: “All those who believe in him shall not be confounded.”
12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, richly in all who call upon him.
13. For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14. Then in what way will those who have not believed in him call upon him? Or in what way will those who have not heard of him believe in him? And in what way will they hear of him without preaching?
15. And truly, in what way will they preach, unless they have been sent, just as it has been written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who evangelize peace, of those who evangelize what is good!”
16. But not all are obedient to the Gospel. For Isaiah says: “Lord, who has believed our report?”
17. Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.
18. But I say: Have they not heard? For certainly: “Their sound has gone forth throughout all the earth, and their words unto the limits of the whole world.”
19. But I say: Has Israel not known? First, Moses says: “I will lead you into a rivalry with those who are not a nation; in the midst of a foolish nation, I will send you into wrath.”
20. And Isaiah dares to say: “I was discovered by those who were not seeking me. I appeared openly to those who were not asking about me.”
21. Then to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who do not believe and who contradict me.”

## Romans 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Fratres, voluntas quidem cordis mei, et obsecratio ad Deum, fit pro illis in salutem.
2. Testimonium enim perhibeo illis quod æmulationem Dei habent, sed non secundum scientiam.
3. Ignorantes enim justitiam Dei, et suam quærentes statuere, justitiæ Dei non sunt subjecti.
4. Finis enim legis, Christus, ad justitiam omni credenti.
5. Moyses enim scripsit, quoniam justitiam, quæ ex lege est, qui fecerit homo, vivet in ea.
6. Quæ autem ex fide est justitia, sic dicit: Ne dixeris in corde tuo: Quis ascendet in cælum? id est, Christum deducere:
7. aut, Quis descendet in abyssum? hoc est, Christum a mortuis revocare.
8. Sed quid dicit Scriptura? Prope est verbum in ore tuo, et in corde tuo: hoc est verbum fidei, quod prædicamus.
9. Quia si confitearis in ore tuo Dominum Jesum, et in corde tuo credideris quod Deus illum suscitavit a mortuis, salvus eris.
10. Corde enim creditur ad justitiam: ore autem confessio fit ad salutem.
11. Dicit enim Scriptura: Omnis qui credit in illum, non confundetur.
12. Non enim est distinctio Judæi et Græci: nam idem Dominus omnium, dives in omnes qui invocant illum.
13. Omnis enim quicumque invocaverit nomen Domini, salvus erit.
14. Quomodo ergo invocabunt, in quem non crediderunt? aut quomodo credent ei, quem non audierunt? quomodo autem audient sine prædicante?
15. quomodo vero prædicabunt nisi mittantur? sicut scriptum est: Quam speciosi pedes evangelizantium pacem, evangelizantium bona!
16. Sed non omnes obediunt Evangelio. Isaias enim dicit: Domine, quis credidit auditui nostro?
17. Ergo fides ex auditu, auditus autem per verbum Christi.
18. Sed dico: Numquid non audierunt? Et quidem in omnem terram exivit sonus eorum, et in fines orbis terræ verba eorum.
19. Sed dico: Numquid Israël non cognovit? Primus Moyses dicit: Ego ad æmulationem vos adducam in non gentem: in gentem insipientem, in iram vos mittam.
20. Isaias autem audet, et dicit: Inventus sum a non quærentibus me: palam apparui iis qui me non interrogabant.
21. Ad Israël autem dicit: Tota die expandi manus meas ad populum non credentem, et contradicentem.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2636: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2632: Prayer of Petition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 579: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1953: The Moral Law ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 635: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 14: Structure of this Catechism ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 186: I. the Creeds ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 449: Lord ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2739: Filial Trust ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2666: The Way of Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 875: Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.” — St. Francis Xavier, Letter from India to his companions in Rome, 1544 (On this theme: verse 14)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: “The justice of God” … That is, the justice which God giveth us through Christ; as on the other hand, the Jews' own justice is, that which they pretended to by their own strength, or by the observance of the law, without faith in Christ.
- Verse 9: To confess the Lord Jesus, and to call upon the name of the Lord (ver. 13) is not barely the professing a belief in the person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will save no man. St. Matt. 7. 21.
- Verse 15: Here is an evident proof against all new teachers, who have all usurped to themselves the ministry without any lawful mission, derived by succession from the apostles, to whom Christ said, John 20. 21, As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Nov 30, 2026: St. Andrew, Apostle — First Reading, Romans 10:9-18
- Tue, Nov 30, 2027 (computed): St. Andrew, Apostle — First Reading, Romans 10:9-18
- Sun, Mar 5, 2028 (computed): First Sunday of Lent — Second Reading, Romans 10:8-13
- Thu, Nov 30, 2028 (computed): St. Andrew, Apostle — First Reading, Romans 10:9-18

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).