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NASB | Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. |
Bible Question: Why do we have to call Jesus - Lord Jesus and not just Jesus |
Bible Answer: 1) In the world, for thousands of years, there have been many men named "Jesus." Our Lord is not the only Jesus who ever existed. Therefore, there must be some way to distinguish our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, from everyone else named Jesus. . . . 2) In the New Testament after the book of Acts rarely is Christ referred to as merely Jesus. The majority of times that His name is mentioned, He is called Christ, Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus. . . . 3) 'Scripture ascribes glory to Jesus Christ in numerous ways, but in naming him "Lord" (Greek *kyrios*) it makes an ultimate statement. ... Jesus is Lord. ... Just as it is impossible to overstate the power, grandeur, and goodness of the *kyrios* (Lord) the Father, so there is hardly limit to the glory ascribed in Scripture to the *kyrios* the Son. Therefore Isaiah's counsel, and Peter's, is to be heeded: "Sanctify the Lord himself" (Isa 8:13), which Peter tellingly restates as "sanctify Christ as Lord" ' (1 Peter 3:15 NASB). (Robert W. Yarbrough, p. 409-410, Baker Theological Dictionary of the Bible, Baker Books, 1996.) |