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Romans 10:15 — King James Version← Study notes

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!


Romans 10:15Greek Interlinear

Greek · Romans 10:1516 words
GreekMeaning
πῶςpōs
HowadverbG4459
δὲde
nowwordG1161
κηρύξωσινkēryxōsin
preacher(-er), proclaim, publishverbG2784
ἐὰνean
onlywordG1437
μὴ
unlessadverbG3361
ἀποσταλῶσινapostalōsin
they shall be sent?verbG649
καθὼςkathōs
according to, (according, even) aswordG2531
γέγραπταιgegraptai
it has been writtenverbG1125
ὩςHōs
HowadverbG5613
ὡραῖοιhōraioi
beautifuladjectiveG5611
οἱhoi
thearticleG3588
πόδεςpodes
feetnounG4228
τῶνtōn
of thosearticleG3588
εὐαγγελιζομένωνeuangelizomenōn
evangelising aboutverbG2097
τὰta
of thosearticleG3588
ἀγαθάagatha
good thingsadjectiveG18
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Romans 10:15

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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Omar HassanNote3mo ago
How Beautiful the Feet
Paul asks: 'How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?' He...
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