8No, but what does it say? ‘The message is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (which means ‘The Message of faith’ which we proclaim).
9For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10For with their hearts people believe and so attain to righteousness, while with their lips they make their Profession of faith and so find salvation.
11As the passage of scripture says — ‘No one who believes in him will have any cause for shame.’
12For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.
13For everyone who invokes the name of the Lord will be saved.
14But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless someone proclaims him?
15And how is anyone to proclaim him unless they are sent as his messengers? As scripture says — ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’
16Still, it may be said, everyone did not give heed to the good news. No, for Isaiah asks — ‘Lord, who has believed our teaching?’