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Ἀλλὰ τί λέγει; ἐγγύς σου τὸ ῥῆμά ἐστιν, ἐν τῷ στόματί σου καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου· τοῦτ’ ἔστι τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς πίστεως ὃ κηρύσσομεν. (Romans 10:8)

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we proclaim.

Romans 10:8 sits at the center of Paul’s argument for accessible righteousness through faith. Quoting and reapplying Deuteronomy 30:14, Paul uses Koine syntax to collapse the space between divine speech and human reception. This verse is deceptively simple but grammatically rich, combining a rhetorical question, spatial prepositions, and relative clause constructions to embody the nearness of the Gospel.… Learn Koine Greek