Romans 10:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

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  • Ps 19:4 : 4 Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.
  • Matt 24:14 : 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 Paul’s Desire to Visit Rome First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • Col 1:6 : 6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
  • Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
  • 1 Thess 1:8 : 8 For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • Mark 16:20 : 20 They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]
  • Acts 2:5-9 : 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem. 6 When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 Completely baffled, they said,“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs– we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.
  • Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
  • Matt 26:13 : 13 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
  • Ps 22:27 : 27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the LORD and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!
  • Ps 98:3 : 3 He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.
  • Isa 24:16 : 16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs– the Just One is majestic. But I say,“I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 he says,“Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”
  • Isa 52:10 : 10 The LORD reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.
  • Matt 4:8 : 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.
  • 1 Kgs 18:10 : 10 As certainly as the LORD your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say,‘He’s not here,’ he makes them swear an oath that they could not find you.

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  • Rom 10:14-17
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    79%

    14How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

    15And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,“How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”

    16But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?”

    17Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

  • Ps 19:3-4
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    3There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.

    4Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

  • Rom 10:19-20
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    74%

    19But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

    20And Isaiah is even bold enough to say,“I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”

  • Rom 15:21
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    21but as it is written:“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

  • Acts 28:26-28
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    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

    27For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’

    28“Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

  • Jer 6:10
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    10I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

  • Mark 13:10
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    10First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

  • Rom 10:8
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    8But what does it say?“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”(that is, the word of faith that we preach),

  • Rom 11:8
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    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Jer 6:18
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    18So the LORD said,“Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    69%

    21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • 1 Thess 1:8
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    8For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.

  • Rom 11:11
    69%

    11I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

  • Heb 4:2
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    2For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

  • Rom 10:2
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    2For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

  • Matt 24:14
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    14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

  • Mark 16:15
    68%

    15He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • 1 John 4:5
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    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • Acts 13:47
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    47For this is what the Lord has commanded us:‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

  • Rom 15:18-19
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

  • Isa 6:9
    67%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Rom 3:18
    67%

    18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

  • Ps 135:17
    67%

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • Acts 10:37
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    37you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

  • Heb 12:19
    67%

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

  • Acts 15:18
    67%

    18known from long ago.

  • Mic 7:16
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    16Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.

  • 1 Cor 14:10
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    10There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

  • Ps 98:3
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    3He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.

  • 1 Cor 10:11
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    11These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

  • Isa 40:21
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    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • 1 Thess 2:16
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    16because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Rom 1:19
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    19because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • 1 Cor 1:20
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    20Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

  • Isa 52:10
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    10The LORD reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

  • Isa 34:1
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    1The Lord Will Judge Edom Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

  • Job 13:17
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    17Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation.