---
title: Romans 10:11
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/romans-10-11/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/romans-10-11.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Romans 10:11
testament: NT
section: Letters
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Romans 10:11

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "No one who rests his faith on him will be disappointed."

## JW Usage

Read as encouragement that faith placed in Jehovah's arrangement will not be disappointed. Because the NWT prints "Jehovah" two verses later, a Witness reading the passage sees Paul moving between Jesus and Jehovah as different subjects, and takes verse 13 as a statement about calling on the Father.

## Protestant Usage

Read verses 9 to 13 straight through in their own Bible, without stopping, and then ask who is being called on. Verse 9: if you publicly declare that Jesus is Lord and exercise faith that God raised him up, you will be saved. Verse 11, quoting Isaiah 28:16: no one who rests his faith on him will be disappointed — and the "him" is the one just named. Verse 12: the same Lord is Lord over all and rich toward all calling on him. Verse 13, quoting Joel 2:32: everyone who calls on the name will be saved. Paul is running a single argument across five verses. The Lord one confesses in verse 9 is the Lord one calls on in verse 13. He does not change subject in the middle. And the quotation he uses is the Old Testament's most exclusive salvation promise. Peter does exactly the same at Acts 2:21, quoting Joel and applying it in a sermon about Jesus. So the apostles took the promise attached to Jehovah's name and attached it to Christ, twice, independently. Compare Isaiah 28:16, Psalms 79:9, Luke 24:47.

## NWT Issue

The NWT prints Romans 10:13 as "Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved." The Greek reads kyriou. Paul is quoting Joel 2:32, where the Hebrew has the divine name, which is the stated basis for the substitution — but the immediate context makes the reference contested in a way the English conceals. Four verses earlier Paul has said that confessing Jesus as Lord is how a person is saved, and verse 12 speaks of "the same Lord over all." Printing "Jehovah" at verse 13 settles by translation the very identification Paul appears to be making, and the reader is given no signal that a decision was taken.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [The Salvation-Name Dilemma](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/salvation-name-dilemma.md) — Old Testament — only Jehovah's name saves. New Testament — only Jesus' name saves. [Deity of Christ]