⁸On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.^G^r This is the message of faith that we proclaim: ⁹If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”^s and believe in your heart^t that God raised him from the dead,^u you will be saved. ¹⁰One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. ¹¹For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame,^H^v ¹²since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek,^w because the same Lord^x of all^y richly blesses all who call on him. ¹³For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.^I^z

ISRAEL’S REJECTION OF THE MESSAGE

¹⁴How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him?^aa And how can they hear without a preacher?^ab ¹⁵And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful^J are the feet of those who bring good news.^K^ac ¹⁶But not all obeyed the gospel.^ad For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?^L^ae ¹⁷So faith comes from what is heard,^af and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.^M^ag ¹⁸But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did:

Their voice has gone out to the whole earth,

and their words to the ends of the world.^N^ah

Read in Logos

Romans 10:14: How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

Footnotes

JOr welcome, or timely
MOther read God

Cross references

G Dt 30:14
r Dt 30:14
s Mt 10:32; Lk 12:8; Rm 14:9; 1Co 12:3; Php 2:11
t Ac 16:31; Rm 4:24
u Ac 2:24
H Is 28:16
v Is 28:16
w Rm 3:22,29
x Ac 10:36
y Rm 3:29
I Jl 2:32
z Jl 2:32; Ac 2:21; 7:59
aa Eph 2:17; 4:21
ab Ac 8:31; Ti 1:3
K Is 52:7; Nah 1:15
ac Is 52:7; Nah 1:15; Rm 1:15; 15:20
ad Rm 3:3
L Is 53:1
ae Is 53:1; Jn 12:38
af Gl 3:2,5
ag Col 3:16
N Ps 19:4
ah Ps 19:4; Rm 1:8; Col 1:16,23; 1Th 1:8