20, 21. In Romans, chapter ten, what words by Moses to the Israelites does Paul quote regarding the availability of God’s commandment?

²⁰ This procedure is plainly set forth by the apostle Paul in Romans, chapter ten.

The Christian apostle Paul explains to us the antitypical meaning, in his letter to the Romans, chapter ten, in order to show how we can get righteousness with God and a good conscience toward him.

“Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”—ROMANS 10:13.

In Romans chapter 10, he gives fine counsel for survival—counsel that applied in his day and that applies again in ours.

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Why, in fact, ‘into all the earth their sound went out, and to the extremities of the inhabited earth their utterances.’” (Romans 10:13, 18)

How is Romans 10:13, 18 being fulfilled today?

Earlier in our century, the Dictionnaire de théologie catholique explained Paul’s arguments (Romans, chapters 9-11) this way: “Increasingly, the prevailing opinion among Catholic scholars is that the actual concept of a predestination to eternal life has not been set out.”

More recently, The Jerusalem Bible offered the same conclusion concerning these chapters (Ro 9-11), stating: “The subject of these chapters, therefore, is not the problem of individual predestination to glory, or even to faith, but of Israel’s part in the development of salvation history, the only problem raised by the statements in the O[ld] T[estament].”

How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach?” (Romans 10:13, 14)

How only will people know where to turn if they want to seek the truth, according to Romans 10:13, 14?

And the apostle Paul, in quoting the ancient Hebrew prophets, said: “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.”​—Luke 4:18; John 17:26; Romans 10:13; Joel 2:32.

It will bring annihilation to all of Satan’s forces on earth and salvation to “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah.”​—Revelation 16:14, 16; 19:11, 16, 19-21; Romans 10:13.

And those who wish to be saved still have to call on Jehovah’s name. (Acts 4:12; Romans 10:13)

□ Romans 10:13

How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent forth?” (Rom. 10:13-15)

In Romans chapter 10 it seems that Paul is saying that the “good news” concerning Christ reached the ears of the many to whom it was preached, just as the preaching of the visible creation covers the earth.

There are verses in the Hebrew Scriptures about Jehovah that are quoted in the “New Testament” in a context speaking about the Son. (Isa. 40:3​—Matt. 3:3​—John 1:23; Joel 2:32​—Rom. 10:13; Ps. 45:6, 7​—Heb. 1:8, 9)

This is a sensible view, for it allows persons to use a widely known pronunciation that still clearly identifies the Creator and God who urges us to use his name. (Isa. 42:8; Rom. 10:13)

Furthermore, Romans 10:13, a quotation from Joel 2:32, reads: “For ‘everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.’”

Hence, if the calling on the Lord referred to in Romans 10:12 is the same as in Romans 10:13, Jehovah God is the Lord being referred to by Paul.