Original Research

Romans 10:5–13 revisited

Willem Oliver
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 71, No 3 | a2929 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i3.2929 | © 2015 Willem Oliver | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 12 March 2015 | Published: 28 October 2015

About the author(s)

Willem Oliver, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, University of South Africa, South Africa

Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate Romans 10:5–13 and specifically the impact of the chiasm (chiasmus) in Romans 10:9–10 on this sub-pericope. In the chiasm Paul makes the following statement(s):

A If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord
B and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
C you will be saved.
B For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness,
A and with the mouth/he confesses, resulting in salvation.

What gives the chiasm existential value here is the fact that this is the only passage in which Paul uses confess with your mouth as a condition for salvation. The sub-pericope will be discussed against the background of the introduction to the letter (Rm 1:16–17) as well as Romans 3:21–31.


Keywords

Paul; Apostle; Letter to the Romans; Romans 10:5-13; chiasm (chiasmus)

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