Romans 10:17

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Romans 10:17

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

Faith

And hearing

Bible References

Faith

But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News; it is the power of God which brings Salvation to every one who believes in Christ, to the Jew first, but also to the Greek.

'They have the writings of Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; 'let them listen to them.'

The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.

Now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his People,

This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God--because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of man, but as what it really is--the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.

But, Brothers, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for Salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the Truth.

Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.

since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

And hearing

Take care what you listen to," said Jesus. "The measure you mete will be meted out to you, and more will be added for you.

This is the parable--The seed is God's Message.

But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God's Message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God's commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.

God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.

I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.