Romans 10:6 (YLT)

Passage

and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

Nearby Context

Romans 10:4 For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

Romans 10:5 for Moses doth describe the righteousness that <FI>is<Fi> of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

Romans 10:6 and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

Romans 10:7 or, `Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up.

Romans 10:8 But what doth it say? `Nigh thee is the saying--in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "righteousness", "doth", "thus", "speak", "thou", "mayest", and "thine". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "righteousness", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "for Moses doth describe the righteousness that..." into verse 7's "or Who shall go down to the...", so "faith" and "righteousness" belong inside that flow. In Romans context, the local focus is righteousness by faith, union with Christ, life in the Spirit, and God's covenant faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "righteousness" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.