16 [a]But they have not [b]all obeyed the Gospel: for Isaiah saith, (A)Lord, who hath believed our report?

17 [c]Then faith is by hearing, and hearing by the [d]word of God.

18 [e]But I demand, Have they not heard? (B)No doubt their sound went out through all the earth, and their words into the ends of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 10:16 Wheresover faith is, there is also the word, but not contrariwise, wheresoever the word is, there is faith also: for many refuse and reject the word.
  2. Romans 10:16 He speaketh this because of the Jews.
  3. Romans 10:17 A conclusion of the former gradation: we must ascend from faith, to our vocation, as by our vocation we came to the testimony of our election.
  4. Romans 10:17 By God’s Commandment.
  5. Romans 10:18 An objection: If calling be a testimony of election, were not the Jews called? why should I not … that, saith the Apostle, seeing that there is no nation which hath not been called? much less can I say, that the Jews were not called.

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