How then may they call on One into whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without preaching?
And the sailors were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship’s articles into the sea, to lighten it from upon them. And Jonah had gone down into the recesses of the ship; and he lay down, and was fast asleep.
And it is not beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall cross over for us to the region beyond the sea and take it for us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it?
But the Lord stood with me and gave me power, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
But without faith it is impossible to be pleasing to God. For it is necessary for the one drawing near to God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking Him out.