Romans 10:1-21

Romans 10:1-4:

^10:1Brothers, indeed the good-consideration of my heart and the supplication towards God on behalf of them (is) into salvation, ^.2for I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God but not according to full-knowledge, ^.3for unknowing the righteousness of God and seeking-after to cause (their) own righteousness to-stand, they were not subjected to the righteousness of God – ^.4for Christ (is the) completion of law into righteousness to every-person believing.

Brothers (Paul and all the holy-people in Rome to whom he was writing were brothers in the holy spirit category; they were all children of God; refer to Romans 1:13, 7:1 and 4, 8:12), indeed…

• the good-consideration of my heart (the word "heart" literally means: the organ that keeps the fleshy body alive by circulating the blood; but figuratively it means: the center or core of a person's being, the seat of his whole personal self and life – the willing-purpose with good-design of emphatically my heart, that-which I suppose to be well in the center/core of my being)
• and the supplication towards God (the specific communication of prayer, beseeching God regarding a lack and thus having a need in this particular situation, making known the needful request towards God)
  • on behalf of them (on Israel’s behalf, in the interests of the genealogical descendants of Jacob/Israel; refer to Genesis 32:27, 28 and 35:10)
    • is into salvation (with a view to, directed to safety, the standing and state of being saved, made-safe to God from sins and their consequences, from destruction),

…for I bear them witness (I attest with information that I personally have about them and therefore I state with authority regarding them) that…

• they have a zeal of God (a boiling or vehement passion pertaining to God)
  • but contrary to the correct zeal, their zeal of God is not in accordance (conformity and proportion) to/with full, clear and exact personal knowledge pertaining to God,
• for unknowing the righteousness of God (while they are being ignorant of the justness issuing from God, they are not being aware of God’s justice, the attributes of justification, the quality of being and doing what is just/right from God's point of view)
• and seeking-after to cause their own righteousness to stand (while they were looking to set the justness issuing from themselves in place, as though they could make it acceptable to God instead of the righteousness that He was making available to them),
  • they were not subjected to (they were not made or caused to be in subjection to, submissive to, in submission, arranged in the position of being underneath, under the authority of)
    • the righteousness of God (God’s justness) –

…in truth, Christ is the completion of law (the law’s complete-thing, not its vanishing or ceasing to exist but bringing it into its perfect state, its ending-issue – Christ is the fulfillment of law)

• into righteousness (with a view to, directed to, and resulting-in justness, justice, the attributes of justification, the quality of being and doing what is just/right from God's point of view)
  • to/for every person believing (all who are having faith, trusting; refer to verse 9 below).

The law was given by God to Moses so that God's people would know, believe, and look to the coming of the Christ, the promised seed, the savior, the redeemer. When Christ came he did not destroy the law of Moses, but he was its completion – he completed it, he finished it, he brought it to its goal, its conclusion. The resurrected Christ is the completion of law into righteousness to every-person believing; but any person who does not believe regarding the Lord Jesus Christ during the present time cannot become righteous before God, in His presence.

[Reference: Matthew 5:17 and 18; Luke 18:9-14; John 1:17; Acts 13:38 and 39, 22:3; Romans 1:16, 3:20-25, 5:17 and 21, 8:4 and 10; I Corinthians 1:30; II Corinthians 3:13-17, 5:21; Galatians 1:14, 2:16 and 21, 3:21-29; Ephesians 4:13-18; Philippians 1:11, 3:4-9; II Peter 1:1.]

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