Romans 10:20

New International Reader's Version

Then Isaiah boldly speaks about what God says. God said, “I was found by those who were not trying to find me. I made myself known to those who were not asking for me.” (Isaiah 65:1)

Cross References

Proverbs 28:1

Sinners run away even when no one is chasing them. But those who do what is right are as bold as lions.

Isaiah 49:6

Here is what the Lord says to me. “It is not enough for you as my servant to bring the tribes of Jacob back to their land. It is not enough for you to bring back the people of Israel I have kept alive. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles. Then you will make it possible for the whole world to be saved.”

Isaiah 52:15

But many nations will be surprised when they see what he has done. Kings will be so amazed that they will not be able to say anything. They will understand things they were never told. They will know the meaning of things they never heard.”

Isaiah 58:1

The Lord told me, “Shout out loud. Do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Tell my people that they have refused to obey me. Tell the family of Jacob how much they have sinned.

Matthew 20:16

“So those who are last will be first. And those who are first will be last.”

Luke 14:23

“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads. Go out to the country lanes. Make the people come in. I want my house to be full.

Romans 10:3

They didn’t know that God’s power makes people right with himself. They tried to get right with God in their own way. They didn’t do it in God’s way.

Romans 9:30

What should we say then? Gentiles did not look for a way to be right with God. But they found it by having faith.

Romans 9:31

The people of Israel tried to obey the law to make themselves right with God. But they didn’t reach their goal of being right with God.

1 John 4:19

We love because he loved us first.