Whosoever Shall Call Upon the Name of the Lord, Romans 10:13 Wall Art

The kneeling figure

A bearded man with shoulder-length brown hair kneels in profile on a patch of dry grass, sandaled feet tucked beneath him. He wears a cream tunic belted with leather, a long blue shawl and a terracotta mantle that spills onto the ground behind him. His arms are raised, hands open and cupped as if to receive something, and his gaze follows them upward.

From the upper right a broad beam of yellow light breaks through gray-blue cloud and falls across his face. Behind him, a few boulders, olive bushes and a distant white village with two cypress trees sit at the foot of pale hills. The verse is lettered above in brown: “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved”, Romans 10:13.

What does Romans 10:13 mean?

Paul is not inventing the line; he is quoting the prophet Joel, who promised that in a time of upheaval anyone who called on the name of the LORD would be delivered. Peter quotes the same prophecy in his sermon at Pentecost in Acts 2. For Paul, writing to a mixed congregation of Jewish and Gentile believers in Rome, the key word is “whosoever”.

The verse just before it makes that explicit: “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.” No background, heritage or past record puts anyone outside the reach of that call. A few lines earlier, Paul describes faith as a matter of the mouth and the heart together: confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing that God raised him from the dead.

The chapter then asks a chain of questions that has driven Christian mission ever since: how can people call on someone they have not believed in, and how can they believe without hearing? Romans 10:13 sits at the hinge of that argument, a wide-open promise followed by the responsibility to share it.

For a believer's baptism

This print was chosen with adult baptism in mind: a teenager or grown-up who has made a personal decision of faith and wants a reminder of the day. Churches that baptize by immersion often ask candidates to share a verse, and this is one of the most common choices.

It also speaks to anyone returning to faith after a long absence, or going through a season when prayer is simply a cry for help. Its open sky and warm light make it suitable for a bedroom, an office or a recovery group's meeting room.