MENU

New Testament Reading - Salvation Is for All

⁵For Moses wrote that if a person could be perfectly good and hold out against temptation all his life and never sin once, only then could he be pardoned and saved. ⁶But the salvation that comes through faith says, “You don’t need to search the heavens to find Christ and bring him down to help you,” and, ⁷“You don’t need to go among the dead to bring Christ back to life again.”

⁸For salvation that comes from trusting Christ — which is what we preach — is already within easy reach of each of us; in fact, it is as near as our own hearts and mouths. ⁹For if you tell others with your own mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord and believe in your own heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For it is by believing in his heart that a man becomes right with God; and with his mouth he tells others of his faith, confirming his salvation.^a

¹¹For the Scriptures tell us that no one who believes in Christ will ever be disappointed. ¹²Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect: they all have the same Lord who generously gives his riches to all those who ask him for them. ¹³Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

¹⁴But how shall they ask him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? ¹⁵And how will anyone go and tell them unless someone sends him? That is what the Scriptures are talking about when they say, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace with God and bring glad tidings of good things.”^b In other words, how welcome are those who come preaching God’s Good News!

1. Literally, “confession is made unto salvation.”
2. See Isaiah 52:7.