# Romans 10.13-17

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**Book:** [Romans](/codex/romans/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 11. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame. 12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:
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> **13. for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15. and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things! 16. But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17. So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.**
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> 18. But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world. 19. But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you. (Romans 10:11-19, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 11. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” 12. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
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> **13. For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15. And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” 16. But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17. So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.**
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> 18. But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” 19. But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.” (Romans 10:11-19, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 11. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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> **13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15. And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16. But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? <sup>our report: Gr. the hearing of us?</sup> <sup>report: or, preaching?</sup> 17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.**
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> 18. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 19. But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. (Romans 10:11-19, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 11. for the Writing saith, 'Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,' 12. for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him,
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> **13. for every one, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.' 14. How then shall they call upon [him] in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe [on him] of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? 15. and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, 'How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!' 16. But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, 'Lord, who did give credence to our report?' 17. so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God,**
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> 18. but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed, 'to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.' 19. But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, 'I will provoke you to jealousy by [that which is] not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,' (Romans 10:11-19, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- [G5219 - hypakouo](/codex/g5219-hypakouo/), *hypakouo*, Strong's G5219
- [G2097 - euangelizo](/codex/g2097-euangelizo/), *euangelizo*, Strong's G2097
- [G2098 - euangelion](/codex/g2098-euangelion/), *euangelion*, Strong's G2098
- [G4982 - sozo](/codex/g4982-sozo/), *sozo*, Strong's G4982
- [G3686 - onoma](/codex/g3686-onoma/), *onoma*, Strong's G3686
- [G4100 - pisteuo](/codex/g4100-pisteuo/), *pisteuo*, Strong's G4100

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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [Argument from the Pre-Given Logos](/codex/argument-from-the-pre-given-logos/), via [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)
- [Belief-Choice Objection Defeater](/codex/belief-choice-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Cumulative Case for the Deity of Christ](/codex/cumulative-case-for-the-deity-of-christ/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Gentiles Cannot Be Saved Objection Defeater](/codex/gentiles-cannot-be-saved-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.12-13](/codex/romans-10-12-13/)
- [God Created Me Knowing I Would Reject Him Objection Defeater](/codex/god-created-me-knowing-i-would-reject-him-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Jesus Never Claimed to Be God Objection Defeater](/codex/jesus-never-claimed-to-be-god-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Necessity of the Incarnation](/codex/necessity-of-the-incarnation/), via [Romans 10.9-13](/codex/romans-10-9-13/)
- [Sacred Name Yahawah Yahawashi Required for Salvation Objection Defeater](/codex/sacred-name-yahawah-yahawashi-required-for-salvation-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/), [Romans 10.9-13](/codex/romans-10-9-13/)
- [Trinity Invented at Nicaea Objection Defeater](/codex/trinity-invented-at-nicaea-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Unitarian Oneness Binitarian Objection Defeater](/codex/unitarian-oneness-binitarian-objection-defeater/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)

**Concepts:**

- [100 Common Questions](/codex/100-common-questions/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Calvinism](/codex/calvinism/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Calvinism vs Arminianism vs Molinism vs Open Theism](/codex/calvinism-vs-arminianism-vs-molinism-vs-open-theism/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Christ is God](/codex/christ-is-god/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Christianity](/codex/christianity/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Christology](/codex/christology/), via [Romans 10.9-13](/codex/romans-10-9-13/)
- [Christs Deity](/codex/christs-deity/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [External Sources of Thought](/codex/external-sources-of-thought/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Faith](/codex/faith/), via [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)
- [Free Will and Determinism](/codex/free-will-and-determinism/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [General Revelation](/codex/general-revelation/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Hell and Eternal Punishment](/codex/hell-and-eternal-punishment/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Innate Knowledge of God](/codex/innate-knowledge-of-god/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Lesson 2.4, Christology in One Lesson](/codex/lesson-2-4-christology-in-one-lesson/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Local Church Movement](/codex/local-church-movement/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Monergism](/codex/monergism/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Names of Jehovah](/codex/names-of-jehovah/), via [Romans 10.12-13](/codex/romans-10-12-13/), [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Natural Theology](/codex/natural-theology/), via [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)
- [Old Testament Christology](/codex/old-testament-christology/), via [Romans 10.16](/codex/romans-10-16/)
- [Old Testament Witness to the Deity of Christ](/codex/old-testament-witness-to-the-deity-of-christ/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Redemption](/codex/redemption/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Resurrection of the Body](/codex/resurrection-of-the-body/), via [Romans 10.9-13](/codex/romans-10-9-13/)
- [Romans Road](/codex/romans-road/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Salvation Exclusivity](/codex/salvation-exclusivity/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/), [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)
- [Salvation of the Unevangelized](/codex/salvation-of-the-unevangelized/), via [Romans 10.14](/codex/romans-10-14/), [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [Seeking God](/codex/seeking-god/), via [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)
- [Sensus Divinitatis](/codex/sensus-divinitatis/), via [Romans 10.14-17](/codex/romans-10-14-17/)
- [The Hebrew Israelite Defense](/codex/the-hebrew-israelite-defense/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Trinity](/codex/trinity/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Trinity Invented at Nicaea Objection](/codex/trinity-invented-at-nicaea-objection/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Trinity vs Oneness vs Modalism vs Arianism](/codex/trinity-vs-oneness-vs-modalism-vs-arianism/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [Two Powers in Heaven](/codex/two-powers-in-heaven/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/), [Romans 10.9-13](/codex/romans-10-9-13/)

**People:**

- [Witness Lee](/codex/witness-lee/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)

**Lexicon:**

- [G2097 - euangelizo](/codex/g2097-euangelizo/), via [Romans 10.15](/codex/romans-10-15/)
- [G2424 - Iesous](/codex/g2424-iesous/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G2588 - kardia](/codex/g2588-kardia/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G2962 - kyrios](/codex/g2962-kyrios/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G3670 - homologeo](/codex/g3670-homologeo/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G3686 - onoma](/codex/g3686-onoma/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G3956 - pas](/codex/g3956-pas/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G4100 - pisteuo](/codex/g4100-pisteuo/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G4982 - sozo](/codex/g4982-sozo/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G4991 - soteria](/codex/g4991-soteria/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [G5219 - hypakouo](/codex/g5219-hypakouo/), via [Romans 10.16](/codex/romans-10-16/)
- [G5547 - christos](/codex/g5547-christos/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [H0136 - adonai](/codex/h0136-adonai/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [H1319 - basar](/codex/h1319-basar/), via [Romans 10.14-15](/codex/romans-10-14-15/), [Romans 10.15](/codex/romans-10-15/)
- [H3068 - YHWH](/codex/h3068-yhwh/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [H3444 - yeshuah](/codex/h3444-yeshuah/), via [Romans 10.15](/codex/romans-10-15/)
- [H3467 - yasha](/codex/h3467-yasha/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [H5650 - ebed](/codex/h5650-ebed/), via [Romans 10.16](/codex/romans-10-16/)
- [H8034 - shem](/codex/h8034-shem/), via [Romans 10.13](/codex/romans-10-13/)
- [H8085 - shama](/codex/h8085-shama/), via [Romans 10.17](/codex/romans-10-17/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.