Romans 10:8
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New International Version (©1984)
But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

New Living Translation (©2007)
In fact, it says, "The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart." And that message is the very message about faith that we preach:

English Standard Version (©2001)
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART "-- that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

International Standard Version (©2008)
But what does it say? "The message is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart." This is the message about faith that we are proclaiming:

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
However, what else does it say? "This message is near you. It's in your mouth and in your heart." This is the message of faith that we spread.

King James Bible
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

American King James Version
But what said it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

American Standard Version
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Bible in Basic English
But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:

Douay-Rheims Bible
But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.

Darby Bible Translation
But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

English Revised Version
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Webster's Bible Translation
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Weymouth New Testament
But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--

World English Bible
But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Young's Literal Translation
But what doth it say? 'Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

Geneva Study Bible

{5} But what saith it? The {f} word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

(5) Calling comes by the word preached.

(f) By word, Moses understood the law which the Lord proclaimed with his own voice: and Paul applied it to the preaching of the Gospel, which was the perfection of the law.

People's New Testament

10:8 But what saith it? What does God's righteousness demand? It replies that we do not have to go either to heaven or to hades to lay hold of salvation, but that

the word is nigh thee. The gospel is at hand. Faith in it, nourished in the heart and openly confessed, will secure salvation. This is more fully explained in the next verse.

Wesley's Notes

10:8 But what saith he - Moses. Even these words, so remarkably applicable to the subject before us. All is done ready to thy hand. The word is nigh thee - Within thy reach; easy to be understood, remembered, practised. This is eminently true of the word of faith - The gospel. Which we preach - The sum of which is, If thy heart believe in Christ, and thy life confess him, thou shalt be saved.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. But what saith it? It saith-continuing the quotation from De 30:14.

The word is nigh thee-easily accessible.

in thy mouth-when thou confessest Him.

and in thine heart-when thou believest on Him. Though it is of the law which Moses more immediately speaks in the passage quoted, yet it is of the law as Israel shall be brought to look upon it when the Lord their God shall circumcise their heart "to love the Lord their God with all their heart" (Ro 10:6); and thus, in applying it, the apostle (as Olshausen truly observes) is not merely appropriating the language of Moses, but keeping in the line of his deeper thought.

that is, the word of faith, which we preach-that is, the word which men have to believe for salvation (compare 1Ti 4:6).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:5-11 The self-condemned sinner need not perplex himself how this righteousness may be found. When we speak of looking upon Christ, and receiving, and feeding upon him, it is not Christ in heaven, nor Christ in the deep, that we mean; but Christ in the promise, Christ offered in the word. Justification by faith in Christ is a plain doctrine. It is brought before the mind and heart of every one, thus leaving him without excuse for unbelief. If a man confessed faith in Jesus, as the Lord and Saviour of lost sinners, and really believed in his heart that God had raised him from the dead, thus showing that he had accepted the atonement, he should be saved by the righteousness of Christ, imputed to him through faith. But no faith is justifying which is not powerful in sanctifying the heart, and regulating all its affections by the love of Christ. We must devote and give up to God our souls and our bodies: our souls in believing with the heart, and our bodies in confessing with the mouth. The believer shall never have cause to repent his confident trust in the Lord Jesus. Of such faith no sinner shall be ashamed before God; and he ought to glory in it before men.


Deuteronomy 30:14 "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. (NASB ©1995)

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But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

The word. De 30:14

the word of faith. 17 1:16,17 Isa 57:19 Mr 16:15,16 Ac 10:43 13:38,39 16:31 Ga 3:2,5 1Ti 4:6 1Pe 1:23,25

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