13. For “Everyone who calls upon the name of Adonai shall be saved.”
14. How then shall they call on the One in whom they have not trusted? And how shall they trust in the One they have not heard of? And how shall they hear without someone proclaiming?
15. And how shall they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news of good things!”
16. But not all heeded the Good News. For Isaiah says, “Adonai, who has believed our report?”
17. So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Messiah.
18. But I say, have they never heard? Indeed they have, for “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”
19. But I say, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, with a nation empty of understanding I will vex you.”
20. And Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I became visible to those who did not ask for Me.”
21. But about Israel He says, “All day long I stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”