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Romans 10:14 — King James Version← Study notes

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?


Romans 10:14Greek Interlinear

Greek · Romans 10:1418 words
GreekMeaning
ΠῶςPōs
HowadverbG4459
οὖνoun
thenwordG3767
ἐπικαλέσωνταιepikalesōntai
on HimverbG1519
εἰςeis
into / toprepositionG1519
ὃνhon
whomrelative pronounG3739
οὐκouk
notadverbG3756
ἐπίστευσανepisteusan
they believed?verbG4100
πῶςpōs
HowadverbG4459
δὲde
nowwordG1161
πιστεύσωσινpisteusōsin
believeverbG4100
οὗhou
of whomrelative pronounG3739
οὐκouk
notadverbG3756
ἤκουσανēkousan
they have heard?verbG191
πῶςpōs
HowadverbG4459
δὲde
nowwordG1161
ἀκούσωσινakousōsin
hearverbG191
χωρὶςchōris
apart fromprepositionG5565
κηρύσσοντοςkēryssontos
preaching?verbG2784
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Romans 10:14

Here again he takes from them all excuse. For since he had said, “I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,” and that “being ignorant of God's righteousness, they submitted not themselves” to it: he next shows, that for this ignorance itself they were punishable before God. This he does not say indeed so, but he makes it good by carrying on his discourse in the way of question, and so convicting them more clearly, by framing the whole…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 18 on Romans
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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