The Scofield Bible Commentary: Romans: Romans Chapter 10
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
saved
(See Scofield) - (Rom 1:16).
righteousness
The word "righteousness" here, and in the passages having marginal references to this, means "legal", or "self-righteousness"; the futile effort of man to work out under law a character which God can approve.
(See Scofield) - (Rev 19:8).
(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:21).
Righteousness here, and in the passages which refer to (Rom 10:10); means that "righteousness of God" which is judicially reckoned to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; believers are the "righteous".
world
(Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth").
(See Scofield) - (Luk 2:1).