Romans 10:17

Christian Standard Bible ®

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Faith comes from hearing and listening to the good news about what Jesus did for us.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Bible in Basic English
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Darby Translation
So faith then [is] by a report, but the report by God's word.

World English Bible
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Weymouth's New Testament
And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.

King James Version (1611)
So then, faith commeth by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Literal Translation
Then faith is of hearing, and hearing through the Word of God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the faith cometh by hearynge, but hearinge cometh by the worde of God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

Amplified Bible
So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.

American Standard Version
So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Revised Standard Version
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
So then fayth cometh by hearynge and hearynge cometh by the worde of God.

Update Bible Version
So belief [comes] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
So then, faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Young's Literal Translation
so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

New Century Version
So faith comes from hearing the Good News, and people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

New English Translation
Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

Berean Standard Bible
Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Contemporary English Version
No one can have faith without hearing the message about Christ.

Complete Jewish Bible
So trust comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through a word proclaimed about the Messiah.

English Standard Version
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then faith is by hearing, and hearing by the worde of God.

George Lamsa Translation
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Hebrew Names Version
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

International Standard Version
Consequently, faith comes from listening, and listening comes through the word of Christ.of God">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Therefore faith is from the hearing of the ear, and the hearing of the ear from the word of Aloha.

Murdock Translation
Therefore, faith is from the hearing of the ear; and the hearing of the ear, is from the word of God.

New King James Version
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

New Living Translation
So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

New Life Bible
So then, faith comes to us by hearing the Good News. And the Good News comes by someone preaching it.

English Revised Version
So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

New Revised Standard
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hence, our faith, cometh by something heard, and, that which is heard, through a declaration of Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.

King James Version
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Lexham English Bible
Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So then fayth commeth by hearyng, and hearyng commeth by the worde of God.

Easy-to-Read Version
So faith comes from hearing the Good News. And people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

New American Standard Bible
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Good News Translation
So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor feith is of heryng, but heryng bi the word of Crist.

Contextual Overview

¹² for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him. ¹³ For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things! ¹⁶ But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message? ¹⁷ So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask, "Did they not hear?" Yes, they did: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world. ¹⁹ But I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" First, Moses said: I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that lacks understanding. ²⁰ And Isaiah says boldly: I was found by those who were not looking for Me; I revealed Myself to those who were not asking for Me. ²¹ But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

faith: Romans 10:14, Romans 1:16, Luke 16:29-31, 1 Corinthians 1:18-24, Colossians 1:4-6, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, James 1:18-21, 1 Peter 1:23-25, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 2:2

and hearing: Jeremiah 23:28, Jeremiah 23:29, Mark 4:24, Luke 8:11, Luke 8:21, Luke 11:28, 2 Corinthians 2:17, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 1:9

Reciprocal: Job 42:5 - heard Psalms 18:44 - As soon Proverbs 8:33 - Hear Isaiah 51:5 - my salvation Isaiah 53:1 - Who Isaiah 55:2 - Hearken Isaiah 55:11 - shall my Luke 9:11 - when John 1:37 - and they John 6:63 - the words Acts 10:22 - and to Acts 15:7 - by my Romans 10:8 - the word of faith Galatians 3:2 - by the hearing Ephesians 2:8 - that Colossians 1:6 - since Hebrews 4:2 - preached Hebrews 13:7 - word

Cross-References

Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So then faith comes by hearing,.... That is, by preaching; for the word hearing is used in the same sense as in the preceding verse; and designs the report of the Gospel, or the preaching of the word, which is the means God makes use of, to convey faith into the hearts of his people; for preachers are ministers, or instruments, by whom others believe:

and hearing by the word of God; or "of Christ", as some copies read, and so do the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and intends either the holy Scriptures, which have God for their author, and Christ for the subject of them; and which furnish the men of God, or ministers of the Gospel, with proper materials to preach; and so hearing or preaching is by them, or else the command of God or Christ, which ρημα more properly signifies; and the sense is, that men preach the Gospel in obedience to the commandment of the everlasting God, and according to the orders, mission, and commission, warrant and authority, of the Lord Jesus Christ: and so these words are the conclusion, and sum of the whole; that as invocation is owing to faith, so faith to hearing, hearing to preaching, preaching to a mission; whence it follows, that it is the original will of God, to send forth his apostles and ministers, to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, as well as to the Jews; that they hearing might believe, and believing call upon the Lord, and so be saved by him: it is a saying of the Jews, שמיעה בדבור תליא, "hearing depends upon the word" e.

e Zohar in Deut. fol. 110. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So then faith cometh ... - This I take to be clearly the language of the objector. As if he had said, by the very quotation which you have made from Isaiah, it appears that a report was necessary. He did not condemn people for not believing what they had not heard; but he complains of those who did not believe a message actually delivered to them. Even by this passage, therefore, it seems that a message was necessary, that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the divine message. It could not be right, therefore, to condemn those who had not obeyed the gospel because they had not heard it; and hence, not right to make salvation dependent on a condition which was, by the arrangement of God, put beyond their power. The very quotation from Isaiah, therefore, goes to confirm the objection in Romans 10:14;Romans 15:0.

By hearing - Our translation has varied the expression here, which is the same in two places in the Greek: “Isaiah said, Who hath believed our report τῇ ἀκοῇ tē akoē? So then, you must admit that faith comes by that report ἐξ ἀκοῆς ex akoēs, and therefore this report or message is necessary.” When it is said that faith cometh by hearing, it is not meant that all who hear actually believe, for that is not true; but that faith does not exist unless there is a message, or report, to be heard or believed. It cannot come otherwise than by such a message; in other words, unless there is something made known to be believed. And this shows us at once the importance of the message, and the fact that people are converted by the instrumentality of truth, and of truth only.

And hearing - And the report, or the message (η ̔ἀκοὴ hē akoē), is by the Word of God; that is, the message is sent by the command of God. It is his word, sent by his direction, and therefore if withheld by him, those who did not believe could not be blamed. The argument of the objector is, that God could not justly condemn people for not believing the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. So then faith cometh by hearing — Preaching the Gospel is the ordinary means of salvation; faith in Christ is the result of hearing the word, the doctrine of God preached. Preaching, God sends; if heard attentively, faith will be produced; and if they believe the report, the arm of the Lord will be revealed in their salvation.