Romans 10:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

But how shall they call on him, in whome they haue not beleeued? and how shall they beleeue in him, of whom they haue not heard? and howe shall they heare without a preacher?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πῶς οὖν ἐπικαλέσονται εἰς ὃν οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν; πῶς δὲ πιστεύσουσιν οὗ οὐκ ἤκουσαν; πῶς δὲ ἀκούσουσιν χωρὶς κηρύσσοντος;

Transliteration

Pōs oun epikalesontai eis hon ouk episteusan? pōs de pisteusousin hou ouk ēkousan? pōs de akousousin chōris kēryssontos?

Grammar Details

• *Pōs*: interrogative adverb - how
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
• *epikalesontai*: future indicative, middle, 3rd plural - they will call upon
• *eis hon*: accusative, masculine, singular - on whom
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *episteusan*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd plural - they believed
• *pōs de*: interrogative adverb + postpositive conjunction - and how
• *pisteusousin*: future indicative, active, 3rd plural - they will believe
• *hou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of whom
• *ēkousan*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd plural - they heard
• *akousousin*: future indicative, active, 3rd plural - they will hear
• *chōris*: preposition + genitive - without
• *kēryssontos*: present participle, genitive, masculine, singular - of one preaching

Word Meanings

• *epikalesontai*: they will call upon/invoke/appeal to
• *episteusan*: they believed/trusted/had faith
• *ēkousan*: they heard/listened to
• *chōris*: without/apart from/separated from
• *kēryssontos*: one preaching/proclaiming/heralding

Referenced Verses

• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 And he saide vnto them, Goe ye into all the worlde, and preach the Gospel to euery creature. 16 He that shall beleeue and be baptized, shalbe saued: but he that will not beleeue, shalbe damned.
• Luke 24:46-47 : 46 And said vnto them, Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe from the dead the third day, 47 And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.
• Titus 1:3 : 3 But hath made his worde manifest in due time through the preaching, which is committed vnto me, according to the commandement of God our Sauiour:
• Eph 4:21 : 21 If so be yee haue heard him, and haue bene taught by him, as the trueth is in Iesus,
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully beleeued, and that al the Gentiles should heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Heb 11:6 : 6 But without faith it is vnpossible to please him: for he that commeth to God, must beleeue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him.
• Jas 5:15 : 15 And the prayer of faith shall saue the sicke, and the Lord shall raise him vp: and if he haue committed sinnes, they shalbe forgiuen him.
• John 20:31 : 31 But these things are written, that ye might beleeue, that Iesus is that Christ that Sonne of God, and that in beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name.
• Acts 8:31 : 31 And he saide, Howe can I, except I had a guide? And he desired Philip, that he would come vp and sit with him.
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 Deliuering thee from this people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee, 18 To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.
• Rom 1:5 : 5 By whom we haue receiued grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be giuen vnto ye faith) for his Name among al ye Gentiles,
• Rom 16:25-26 : 25 To him nowe that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel, and preaching of Iesus Christ, by the reuelation of the mysterie, which was kept secrete since the worlde began: 26 (But nowe is opened, and published among all nations by the Scriptures of the Prophetes, at the commandement of the euerlasting God for the obedience of faith)
• 1 Kgs 8:41-43 : 41 Moreouer as touching the stranger that is not of thy people Israel, who shall come out of a farre countrey for thy Names sake, 42 (When they shal heare of thy great name, and of thy mightie hande, and of thy stretched out arme) and shall come and pray in this house, 43 Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth for vnto thee: that all the people of the earth may know thy Name, and feare thee, as do thy people Israel: and that they may know, that thy Name is called vpon in this house which I haue built.
• Jonah 1:5 : 5 Then the mariners were afraide, and cryed euery man vnto his God, and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea to lighten it of the: but Ionah was gone downe into the sides of the ship, and he lay downe, and was fast a sleepe.
• Jonah 1:9-9 : 9 And he answered them, I am an Ebrewe, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry lande. 10 Then were the men exceedingly afrayde, and said vnto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knewe, that he fled from the presence of the Lorde, because he had tolde them) 11 Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)
• Jonah 1:16 : 16 Then the men feared the Lorde exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, and made vowes.
• Jonah 3:5-9 : 5 So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from ye greatest of the euen to the least of them. 6 For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes. 7 And he proclaimed & said through Nineueh, (by the counsell of ye king & his nobles) saying, Let neither ma, nor beast, bullock nor sheep taste any thing, neither feed nor drinke water. 8 But let man and beast put on sackecloth, and crie mightily vnto God: yea, let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in their handes. 9 Who can tell if God will turne, and repent and turne away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?