Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Verse Takeaways
1
Faith and Confession
Commentators explain that salvation involves both internal belief and external confession. Sincere faith in the heart ('believe... that God raised him') naturally leads to a public declaration of that faith ('confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord'). Scholars like Matthew Henry note that this represents the total surrender of both soul and body to God. True faith is not meant to be kept private.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Romans
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
17
18th Century
Presbyterian
That if you confess. The word rendered "confess" here—homologēsēs—is often rendered "profess." For example,[Reference Matthew 7:2…
If thou shalt confess (εαν ομολογησηις). Third class condition (εαν and first aorist active subjunctive of ομολογεω).
19th Century
Anglican
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth.—Interesting as containing the earliest formal confession of faith; that in Acts 8:3…
Your support helps us maintain this resource for everyone
Baptist
Speaks in this way, Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend i…
Building on the Deuteronomy passage, especially its use of “mouth” and “heart,” Paul goes on to speak directly of the content of the Christian Gosp…
16th Century
Protestant
That if you will confess, etc. This is also an allusion, rather than a proper and strict quotation. For it is very probable that Moses use…
Get curated content & updates
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus , &c.] That is, if a man shall make a good, sincere, and he…
The self-condemned sinner need not perplex himself about how this righteousness may be found. When we speak of looking upon Christ, and receiving, …
13th Century
Catholic
1. After showing how the Gentiles have been called to faith by the election of God’s grace, and also how some of the Jews (that is, a minori…
