Romans 10:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ So, faith comes from listening, but it’s listening by means of Christ’s message.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

Romans 10:17 Cross References

Galatians 3:2

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Galatians 3:5

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Luke 11:28

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

Mark 4:24

And he said to them, “Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.

Luke 8:21

But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 10:14

But how are men to call upon 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 a preacher?

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Luke 8:11

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

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Job 42:5

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;

Hebrews 4:2

For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

John 1:37

The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.