⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^d^f that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹If you declare^g with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”^h and believeⁱ in your heart that God raised him from the dead,^j you will be saved.^k ¹⁰For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. ¹¹As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^e^l ¹²For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile^m—the same Lord is Lord of allⁿ and richly blesses all who call on him, ¹³for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord^o will be saved.”^f^p

¹⁴How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”^g^q

¹⁶But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.^r For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”^h^s ¹⁷Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,^t and the message is heard through the word about Christ.^u ¹⁸But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.”ⁱ^v

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

Cross references

f Dt 30:14
g Mt 10:32
hSee Jn 13:13
iSee Jn 3:15
jSee Ac 2:24
kSee Ro 11:14
l Isa 28:16; Ro 9:33
mSee Ro 3:22, 29
nSee Mt 28:18
oSee Ac 2:21
p Joel 2:32
q Isa 52:7; Na 1:15
r Heb 4:2
s Isa 53:1; Jn 12:38
t Gal 3:2, 5
u Col 3:16
v Ps 19:4; See Mt 24:14; Ro 1:8; Col 1:6, 23; 1 Th 1:8