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Of course they did--for as the scripture says: "The sound of their voice went out to all the world; their words reached the ends of the earth." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/romans/10-18.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/romans/10-18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/romans/10-18.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/1.htm">Romans</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/10.htm">Chapter 10</a> > Verse 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/10-17.htm" title="Romans 10:17">◄</a> Romans 10:18 <a href="../romans/10-19.htm" title="Romans 10:19">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/romans/10.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/romans/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But I ask: Is it true that they did not hear the message? Of course they did--for as the scripture says: "The sound of their voice went out to all the world; their words reached the ends of the earth." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/romans/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have; for “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/romans/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say, "The message was told everywhere on earth. It was announced all over the world." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/romans/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But I ask, did they not hear? Certainly they did; for “Their voice has gone forth to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.” <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/romans/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the whole world.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the whole world.</p><p class="hdg">Have they.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/2-5.htm">Acts 2:5-11</a> Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/26-20.htm">Acts 26:20</a> But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/28-23.htm">Acts 28:23</a> And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.</p><p class="hdg">their sound.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/10-9.htm">Romans 10:9</a> For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.</p><p class="hdg2">. 'These words are the servants of the Messiah, and measure out both the things above, and the things beneath.'</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-8.htm">Romans 1:8</a> First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/15-19.htm">Romans 15:19</a> By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel of Christ.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/19-4.htm">Psalm 19:4</a> Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/24-14.htm">Matthew 24:14</a> And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation come.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-13.htm">Matthew 26:13</a> Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/28-19.htm">Matthew 28:19</a> Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/16-15.htm">Mark 16:15,20</a> And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/1-6.htm">Colossians 1:6,23</a> Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth. . . . </p><p class="hdg">unto the ends.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/18-10.htm">1 Kings 18:10</a> As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/22-27.htm">Psalm 22:27</a> All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/98-3.htm">Psalm 98:3</a> He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/24-16.htm">Isaiah 24:16</a> From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/49-6.htm">Isaiah 49:6</a> And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/52-10.htm">Isaiah 52:10</a> The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/16-19.htm">Jeremiah 16:19</a> O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/4-8.htm">Matthew 4:8</a> Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/romans/10.htm">The Word Brings Salvation</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl">But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the whole world.</span> <span class="reftext">19</span>But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish nation I will anger you.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/19-4.htm">Psalm 19:4</a></span><br />Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/24-14.htm">Matthew 24:14</a></span><br />And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation come.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/1-8.htm">Acts 1:8</a></span><br />But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/1-8.htm">Romans 1:8</a></span><br />First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../colossians/1-6.htm">Colossians 1:6</a></span><br />Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../colossians/1-23.htm">Colossians 1:23</a></span><br />If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/1-8.htm">1 Thessalonians 1:8</a></span><br />For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not 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