Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Consequently, faith results from listening, and listening results through the word of the Messiah.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

An Understandable Version

So, faith results from [people] hearing, and [their] hearing results from [the preaching of] the message about Christ.

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

Darby Translation

So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

Godbey New Testament

Then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Goodspeed New Testament

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

John Wesley New Testament

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Julia Smith Translation

Therefore faith, from the report, and report by the word of God.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Consequently, faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.

Modern King James verseion

Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

Moffatt New Testament

(You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)

Montgomery New Testament

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Faith then cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Sawyer New Testament

Faith therefore comes by the report, and the report by the word of God.

The Emphasized Bible

Hence, our faith, cometh by something heard, and, that which is heard, through a declaration of Christ.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Faith then cometh by report, but the report by the word of God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the Message of Christ.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

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

Williams New Testament

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

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

Consequently, faith comes of hearing; and hearing, through the word of Christ.

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

so then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So then
ἄρα 
Ara 
therefore , so then , now therefore , then , wherefore , haply , not tr,
Usage: 35

πίστις 
Pistis 
Usage: 221

cometh by
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

ἀκοή 
Akoe 
ἀκοή 
Akoe 
Usage: 21
Usage: 21

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

the word
ῥῆμα 
Rhema 
word, saying, thing, no thing Trans, not tr
Usage: 57

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 10:17

Devotionals containing Romans 10:17

Images Romans 10:17

Prayers for Romans 10:17

Context Readings

Israel's Rejection Of The Message

16 But not all were obedient to the good-news, for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? 17 So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.



Cross References

Jeremiah 23:28-29

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the good-news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

Galatians 3:2

I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith?

Galatians 3:5

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and who works miracles among you, is it from works of law or from a listening ear of faith?

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, Watch what ye hear. By what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you, and to those who hear, it will be added to you.

Luke 8:11

Now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God.

Luke 8:21

But having answered, he said to them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.

Luke 11:28

But he said, Blessed rather, are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.

Luke 16:29-31

But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.

Romans 10:14

How then will they call on whom they have not believed? And how will they believe of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without preaching?

1 Corinthians 1:18-24

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Colossians 1:4-6

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love toward all the sanctified,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And because of this we thank God without ceasing, because, having received the word of God heard from us, ye received not the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are indebted to express thanks to God always about you, brothers, beloved by Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth,

Hebrews 4:12-13

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

James 1:18-21

Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:23-2

begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God that lives and remains into the age.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Christ Jesus, happened to be on the isle that is called Patmos because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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