⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you. It’s in your mouth and in your heart.” That means the word we are preaching. You must put your faith in it.

⁹Say with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord.” Believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. Then you will be saved. ¹⁰With your heart you believe and are made right with God. With your mouth you say that Jesus is Lord. And so you are saved. ¹¹Scripture says, “The one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

¹²There is no difference between those who are Jews and those who are not. The same Lord is Lord of all. He richly blesses everyone who calls on him. ¹³Scripture says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

¹⁴How can they call on him unless they believe in him? How can they believe in him unless they hear about him? How can they hear about him unless someone preaches to them? ¹⁵And how can anyone preach without being sent? It is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

¹⁶But not all the people of Israel accepted the good news. Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” ¹⁷So faith comes from hearing the message. And the message that is heard is the word of Christ.

¹⁸But I ask, “Didn’t the people of Israel hear?” Of course they did. It is written,

“Their voice has gone out into the whole earth.

Their words have gone out from one end of the world to the other.”

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?