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Romans 10 Bible study: Faith comes by hearing

Romans 10 gives the words "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (10:8), and goes straight on: "if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (10:9). And the report of 10:16 and the hearing of 10:17 are one Greek noun.

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“that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9 · World English Bible

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My heart’s desire

In the text

The chapter opens with a prayer: "Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved." (10:1) (tap desire, prayer). Early in chapter 9 Paul says, "I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart" (9:2). He goes on, "For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge." (10:2) (tap zeal, knowledge), and "For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God." (10:3). Favor's introduction to Romans begins this part of the letter at 9:30, under The word is near you. These notes quote "Israel" as each verse names it, say only what the verses say, and apply none of it to any people, nation or person today.

Where the Old Testament leads here

The fulfillment of the law

In the text

Leviticus 18:5leads toRomans 10:4

The LORD says of his statutes and ordinances, "which if a man does, he shall live in them" (18:5). Paul writes, "For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes" (Romans 10:4), and then, "For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, ‘The one who does them will live by them.’" (Romans 10:5). He sets beside it "the righteousness which is of faith" (Romans 10:6).

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The Greek word behind it

ἀκοήakoesay ak-o-AY

Strong's: "hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard)". Thayer lists 10:16-17 where he gives "a thing heard". "For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”" (10:16), and "So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (10:17): behind report and both hearings is this one noun. Romans has it three times, all in these two verses (counted in RP2018). Matthew has it where the WEB also gives report: "The report about him went out into all Syria." (Matthew 4:24).

For your group

Romans 10 Bible study questions

  1. 1"my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved" (10:1). What do you think it looks like to pray for people with that kind of desire?
  2. 2"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (10:8). When has that word felt near to you, and when has it felt far away?
  3. 3"So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (10:17). Think of a time you heard the word of God in a way that stayed with you. What helped you listen?

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Last reviewed October 7, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home