Verse List for ROM 3:5

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) But if our sinfulness highlights God’s sinlessness, what can we say about that? Isn’t God, the one inflicting the severe anger, wrong to punish us? (Of course, this is reasoning from a human perspective.)

OET-LV But if the unrighteousness of _us, of_god the_righteousness is _demonstrating, what we _will _be _saying?
Not unrighteous is the god, the one inflicting the severe _anger?
(According _to human _origin I _am _speaking.
)

ULT But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? God, is not unrighteous for imposing his wrath, is he? (I speak according to men.)

UST But you might say, “Suppose this is true and how unrighteous we Jews are actually confirms how righteous God is. That could not possibly mean that God is unrighteous because he punishes us!” (When I talk like this, I am expressing how human beings think.)

BSB But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [That] God [is] unjust to inflict [His] wrath [on us]? I am speaking in human terms.

MSB But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [That] God [is] unjust to inflict [His] wrath [on us]? I am speaking in human terms.

BLB But if our unrighteousness shows God's righteousness, what shall we say? God, inflicting the wrath, is unrighteous? I speak according to man.

AICNT But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust to inflict [[his]][fn] wrath? I am speaking in human terms.

OEB But what if our wrongdoing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid!

WEBBE & WMBB But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

NET But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

LSV And if our unrighteousness establishes God’s righteousness, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man.)

FBV But if the fact that we're wrong helps to show that God is right, what should we conclude? That God is wrong to pronounce judgment on us? (I'm talking from a human perspective here.)

TCNT §  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God, who inflicts wrath, unrighteous? (I speak in a human way.)

T4T So if we Jews’ being wicked [PRS] shows that it is right that God does not bless us, what shall we say/conclude? Shall we conclude that it is not right for God to be angry and punish us Jews [MTY]? I should not be saying these things, but I am speaking as ordinary humans speak.

LEB ¶  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

BBE But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

Moff But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

Wymth But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous—I speak in our everyday language— when He inflicts punishment?

ASV But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

DRA But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

YLT And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

Drby But if our unrighteousness commend [fn]God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is [fn]God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

RV But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
(But if our unrighteousness commondeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth/visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.))

SLT And if our injustice shall recommend the justice of God, what shall we say God not unjust bringing in anger? (I speak as man).

Wbstr But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

KJB-1769 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
(But if our unrighteousness commond the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh/takes vengeance? (I speak as a man))

KJB-1611 But if our vnrighteousnesse commend the righteousnesse of God, what shall we say? is God vnrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speake as a man)
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Bshps But yf our vnrighteousnes setteth foorth the righteousnes of God, what shall we saye? Is God vnryghteous which taketh vengeaunce? I speake after the maner of men,
(But if our unrighteousness setteth forth the righteousness of God, what shall we saye? Is God unrighteous which taketh/takes vengeance? I speak after the manner of men,)

Gnva Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shall we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)
(Now if our unrighteousness comingd the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which punisheth? (I speak as a man.))

Cvdl But yf it be so, that oure vnrighteousnes prayseth ye righteousnes of God, what shal we saye? Is God then vnrighteous, that he is angrie therfore? (I speake thus after the maner off men)
(But if it be so, that our unrighteousness praiseth ye/you_all righteousness of God, what shall we saye? Is God then unrighteous, that he is angry therefore? (I speak thus after the manner off men))

TNT Yf oure vnrightewesnes make the rightewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God vnrighteous which taketh vengeauce? I speake after the maner of men.
(If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God unrighteous which taketh/takes vengeance? I speak after the manner of men.)

Wycl But if oure wickidnesse comende the riytwisnesse of God, what shulen we seie? Whether God is wickid, that bryngith in wraththe?
(But if our wickedness comingde the righteousness of God, what shall we seie? Whether God is wicked, that bringeth/brings in wrath?)

Luth Ist‘s aber also, daß unsere Ungerechtigkeit Gottes Gerechtigkeit preiset, was wollen wir sagen? Ist denn GOtt auch ungerecht, daß er darüber zürnet? (Ich rede also auf Menschenweise.)
(Is_it but also, that our injustice God’s justice praises(v), what/which want we/us say? Is because/than God also unfair, that he about_it angry? (I speak also on/in/to peopleweise.))

ClVg Si autem iniquitas nostra justitiam Dei commendat, quid dicemus? Numquid iniquus est Deus, qui infert iram?[fn]
(When/But_if however iniquity our justice of_God recommends, what we_will_say? Is_it unjust it_is God, who/which infert anger?)

SR-GNT Εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν, ˚Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησιν, τί ἐροῦμεν; Μὴ ἄδικος ὁ ˚Θεὸς, ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν; (Κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω.) ‡

UGNT εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν, Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησιν, τί ἐροῦμεν? μὴ ἄδικος ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν? (κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω.)

SBL-GNT εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησιν, τί ἐροῦμεν; μὴ ἄδικος ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν; κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω.

RP-GNT Εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησιν, τί ἐροῦμεν; Μὴ ἄδικος ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν; - κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω -

TC-GNT §  εἰ δὲ ἡ ἀδικία ἡμῶν Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην συνίστησι, τί ἐροῦμεν; μὴ ἄδικος ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἐπιφέρων τὴν ὀργήν; (κατὰ ἄνθρωπον λέγω.)