Romans 10:8 (YLT)

Passage

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;

Nearby Context

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;

Romans 10:9 that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

Romans 10:10 for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "doth", "nigh", "thee", "saying--in", "mouth", and "heart". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "doth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "or Who shall go down to the..." into verse 9's "that if thou mayest confess with thy...", so "faith" and "doth" 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 "doth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.