Romans 10:1
Good News Translation
My friends, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them!

New Revised Standard Version
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Contemporary English Version
Dear friends, my greatest wish and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.

New American Bible
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on their behalf is for salvation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.

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Romans 9:1-3 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost: . . .

Exodus 32:10,13 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. . . .

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

1 Samuel 15:11,35 It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night. . . .

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

Jeremiah 17:16 And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.

Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for them, and to turn away thy indignation from them.

Luke 13:34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that you may be saved.

1 Corinthians 9:20-22 And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: . . .

Context
The Word Brings Salvation
1Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation. 2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.…
Cross References
Romans 9:33
As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 9:33
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