Romans 10 Indeed, brothers (= family, or, fellow believers), the good thinking (pleasure; consuming desire; good will; delightful imagination) of my heart, and the request (plea; petition) directed toward (or: face to face with) God over them (or: for their sake) is; leads into deliverance (salvation; health and wholeness; restoration to their original state and condition) for them.

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Indeed, brothers (= family, or, fellow believers), the good thinking (pleasure; consuming desire; good will; delightful imagination) of my heart, and the request (plea; petition) [directed] toward (or: face to face with) God over them (or: for their sake) [is; leads] into deliverance (salvation; health and wholeness; restoration to their original state and condition) [for them]. ² For I am habitually testifying and giving evidence among them, because they continue possessing a zeal from God (or: For you see, I can repeatedly bear witness to and for them that they constantly hold God's zeal and they continuously have a boiling jealously and hot aspiration concerning God), but however, not down from (or: on the level of and in accordance with) full and accurate experiential knowledge, recognition or insight (epi-gnosis). ³ For they, being continuously ignorant of God's Way pointed out (or: habitually failing to recognize the rightwisedness and fairness, which are God, and the right relationships from God in His covenant justice) and constantly seeking to establish (to set and make to stand) their own way pointed out (plan of rightness in relational dealings), were not placed under, and humbly aligned to, God's Way pointed out (or: subjected to God's just path and plan of fairness, or arranged under the rightwisedness from God [= brought into God's covenant participation]), ⁴ for you see, Christ [is] an end of Law (or: for Christ [is] Law’s goal and destiny; for [the] Anointing [is] termination from [the] Law; for Christ [was the] final act of [the] Law) [leading] into the Way pointed out in fair and equitable dealings, and rightwised [covenant] relationships of justice, to, for and in everyone habitually trusting and believing (or: because Christ [entering] into the pointed-out Way – in everyone normally exercising faith with conviction, and with each person remaining loyal – [is; brings] Law's climax). ⁵ For Moses is writing [about] the way pointed out (the fair and equitable dealings and right relationship) [which is] out of the Law [= Torah; some MSS read: from the midst of law], that, "The person (human) doing (performing) the same things (or: these very things) will be constantly living (passing his existence; exercising functions of life) within them [some MSS: within it] (or: in them [or: it] he shall continue living and will be possessed of vitality)." [Lev. 18:5] ⁶ Yet the rightwised quality and condition (the being turned in the right direction in the Way pointed out; the fairness and equity; the justice and right relationship; also = covenant inclusion) from out of the midst of faith is constantly saying thus (is habitually speaking in this manner): "You should not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend (climb back up) into the Heaven (or: the sky; or: the atmosphere)?'" – that is, to lead, convey, carry or bring Christ down; ⁷ Or, "'Who will descend (climb down) into the Deep (the Abyss)?'" – that is, to lead, convey, carry or bring Christ back up again from out of the midst of dead ones. ⁸ But rather, what is He (or: it) saying? "The result of the flow (the gush-effect; or: the saying; the declaration; that which is spoken; the speech) is (or: exists) near you – within your mouth and within your heart!" [Deut. 30:11-14] – that is, the effect of the gush from The Faith (or: the result of the flow which is the saying that pertains to the conviction of trust; the effect of the flux and movement of the Faith; or: that which is spoken which is trust; or: the speech and declaration which comes from faith, trust, reliance and fidelity) which we are habitually announcing publicly (proclaiming extensively), ⁹ namely that whenever you can speak the same saying (or: agree) in your mouth, that "Jesus Christ [is] Lord" (or: so that if at any time you would confess in your mouth the declaration that Jesus [is] Lord [with other MSS: because if ever you should suddenly avow in your own mouth, “Lord Jesus!”]) and would believe within your heart (= trust and have confidence in the core of your being) that God raised (or: arouses and awakens) Him forth from out of the midst of dead folks, you will proceed being delivered (healed and made whole; kept safe; rescued; saved; restored to your original state and condition). ¹⁰ You see, in (or: by; with) [the] heart (= core of your being) it is progressively believed and trusted (or: a person is made loyal and given confidence) [leading] into rightwisedness (justice; a turn in the right direction with equitable dealings and right relationships with the Way pointed out; also = covenant inclusion and participation), yet by (or: in; with) [the] mouth the same thing is being repeatedly said (or: it is agreed and habitually confessed and professed) [leading] into the midst of a deliverance (a rescue; salvation; health and wholeness). ¹¹ For the Scripture is saying, "Everyone habitually believing (putting trust) upon Him will not continue being disgraced, put to shame, humiliated or be disappointed." [Isa. 28:16] ¹² You see, there is no distinction or separation made by putting asunder in order to define or distinguish between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord (Owner; Master) of everyone (or: for the same One [being] Lord of all) is continuously being rich unto (or: is constantly abundantly furnishing [Himself] into) all the folks habitually calling upon Him. ¹³ For thus it follows, "Everyone – whoever may at some point call upon the Name of the Lord [= Yahweh] – will proceed being delivered (kept safe; rescued; saved, healed and made whole)!" [Joel 2:32] ¹⁴ How, then, can (may; should; would) they at some point call unto (= invoke) One Whom (or: that which) they do not trust or believe (or: did not have faith in)? And how can (may; should; would) they believe where they do not hear (or: trust in Whom they did not hear)? And how can they at any point hear apart from a person continually making public proclamation (habitually publishing and extensively heralding)? ¹⁵ Yet how can they publicly proclaim unless they may be sent forth as representative with a mission (or: as emissaries)? Just as it has been and stands written, "How timely and seasonable [are] the feet of the folks continually bringing and announcing goodness (or: the good news of ease and well-being): the good and excellent things!" [Isa. 52:7] ¹⁶ But, to the contrary, everyone did not put the ear under hearing obedience (or: However, not all listen in obedience) to the good news (or: message of goodness, ease and well-being). For Isaiah is saying, "O Lord [= O Yahweh], who believes (which one adhered and trusted) in our hearing (or: by our hearing; in the thing heard from us)?" [Isa. 53:1] ¹⁷ Consequently, the faith (or: the trust; confidence; loyalty) [comes or arises] from out of the midst of, or from within, hearing, yet the hearing [comes] through a gush-effect of Christ, even through the result of a flow which is Christ (or: through Christ's utterance; through something spoken concerning Christ; or: by means of a declaration which is anointed, or from Christ; through a word uttered which is Christ; [other MSS: God's speech]). ¹⁸ But, I ask, isn't it rather that they didn't pay attention or hear? On the contrary! (or: However, I am saying, do they fail to hear? Most certainly!): "Their clear, distinct sound (as vibrations of a musical string; = their voice; = their utterance) comes out into all the earth (or: went out into the entire land), and their gush-effects (results of the flow; or: sayings; the things spoken by them; their declarations) into the boundaries (limits; extremities) of the inhabited area." [Ps. 19:4] ¹⁹ But further, I am asking, isn't it rather that Israel did not come to know or gain insight (or: However, I say, did not Israel fail to experientially and intimately know)? First Moses is saying, "I will progressively bring rivalry, envy and jealously alongside you folks (or: I will provoke you to jealousy) upon [the situation of] a non-nation (a no-nation; upon one not a multitude); upon [the situation of] an unintelligent (stupid; unable-to-put-things-together) ethnic multitude (or: nation) I will proceed bringing an impulsive mental attitude, anger and vexing indignation and inherent fervor alongside you folks." [Deut. 32:21] ²⁰ Yet Isaiah is daring and risking without restraint, and is saying, "I am (or: was) found by, among and within those not seeking or trying to find Me; I become (or: became; was birthed) apparent (visible; obvious to sight; manifest) in (or: by; to; with; among) the ones not inquiring about Me." [Isa. 65:1a] ²¹ Now toward Israel He is saying, "The whole day I stretch and spread out my hands toward a consistently disobeying (noncomplying; refusing to believe) and habitually contradicting (refuting; speaking instead-of; speaking back against) people." [Isa. 65:2]