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Need for Fidelity. 18 (A)Therefore, take these words of mine into your heart and soul. Bind them on your arm as a sign, and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.

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Then the Lord extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying to me,

See, I place my words in your mouth!(A)

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29 Who has gone up to the heavens and taken her,
    bringing her down from the clouds?(A)
30 Who has crossed the sea and found her,
    bearing her away rather than choice gold?
31 None knows the way to her,
    nor has at heart her path.

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But the righteousness that comes from faith says,(A) “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down) [a]or ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”(B) But what does it say?

“The word is near you,
    in your mouth and in your heart”(C)

(that is, the word of faith that we preach),

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 Here Paul blends Dt 30:13 and Ps 107:26.