KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Romans 10:5–8
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Romans 10:5
5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
5For Moses describeth the righteousnesse which is of the Law, that *the man which doeth those things shall liue by them.
- Leu. 18.5. ezek. 20.11. gal. 3.12.
Romans 10:6
6But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
6But the righteousnesse which is of faith, speaketh on this wise: *Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heauen? That is to bring Christ down from aboue.
- Deut. 30.12.
Romans 10:7
7Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
7Or, Who shall descend into the deepe? That is to bring vp Christ againe from the dead.
Romans 10:8
8But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
8But what saith it? *The word is nigh thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that is the word of faith which we preach,
- Deut. 30.14.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 10:5
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
describeth
Describes; sets forth in words, marks out, copies, or represents plainly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Romans 10:6
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Trust, belief, confidence, or reliance; especially trust in God and belief in his word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To go, climb, or rise upward.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The expanse above the earth, including the sky or firmament; also the dwelling or throne of God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Romans 10:7
To go downward; go down.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Without life; deprived of life; also lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Romans 10:8
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Near in place, time, or circumstance; almost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Trust, belief, confidence, or reliance; especially trust in God and belief in his word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To pronounce a public discourse on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture. To proclaim; to publish in religious discourses.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study11And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
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Open the full verse study29And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
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Open the full verse study13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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Open the full verse study21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
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Open the full verse study12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
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Open the full verse study27And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
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Open the full verse study10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study11¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
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Open the full verse study4Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
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Open the full verse study8Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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Open the full verse study12If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
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Open the full verse study58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
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Open the full verse study9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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Open the full verse study22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
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Open the full verse study13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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Open the full verse study30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
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Open the full verse study3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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Open the full verse study7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
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Open the full verse study33For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
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Open the full verse study38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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Open the full verse study50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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Open the full verse study25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Open the full verse study18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
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Open the full verse study25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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Open the full verse study18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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Open the full verse study22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
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Open the full verse study16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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Open the full verse study6If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
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Open the full verse study25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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Open the full verse study2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Open the full verse study17So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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Open the full verse study43To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
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Open the full verse study5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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Open the full verse study23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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Open the full verse study38¶ Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Open the full verse study15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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Open the full verse study31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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Open the full verse study19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
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