Verse 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?

Referenced Verses

  • Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Luke 24:46-47 : 46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Titus 1:3 : 3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
  • Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • Jas 5:15 : 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
  • John 20:31 : 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • Acts 8:31 : 31 He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
  • Rom 16:25-25 : 25
  • 1 Kgs 8:41-43 : 41 "Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house; 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
  • Jonah 1:5 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
  • Jonah 1:9-9 : 9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them. 11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.
  • Jonah 1:16 : 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
  • Jonah 3:5-9 : 5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"