Romans 10:17

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes through the word of God, or the word about Christ. God creates faith through the proclaimed gospel.

Cross-references · 20

• Gal 3:2I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
• Gal 3:5Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
• Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
• 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• Mark 4:24He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.
• Luke 8:21But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
• Rom 1:16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
• Rom 10:14How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
• Heb 4:12–13For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• 1 Cor 1:18–24For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• Luke 8:11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
• Jas 1:18–21He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• Luke 16:29–31But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
• 1 Pet 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• Rev 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
• Col 1:4–6because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
• Jer 23:28–29Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

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