Romans 10:17

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Summary

Romans 10:17

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

Faith

And hearing

Bible References

Faith

But how are they to invoke One in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how are they ever to hear, without a preacher?

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints,

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

And hearing

Also he said to them, "Take care what you hear; the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves, and you will receive extra.

This is what the parable means. The seed is the word of God.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.