Romans 10:14-15
What is written? (ESV)
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!
What does it say?
Someone doesn’t “call on” someone they don’t believe, and they don’t believe unless they’ve heard, and they don’t hear unless someone preaches, and preachers are sent. Those that preach the good news are beautiful.
What is its immediate context?
Paul’s letter is the case for Gentiles being “grafted in” to God’s plan of salvation and here is summarizing the process for one responding to His call. Fundamentally, the gospel (“good news”) is preached and those that “call on him” hear and believe and are saved.
How Romans 10:14-15 is applied across Bible answers
Is baptism for infants or children?
Salvation occurs when someone believes after hearing the gospel ("good news") presented.
Is hearing the gospel the only way to know God’s will?
Paul asks what would seem to be intuitively obvious questions. Those who have been saved (believed) had at some point before that heard the gospel preached by someone who had been sent to preach it.
