ROM 3:1 Parallel View

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ULT What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the benefit of the circumcision?

UST You Jews might say, “If what you have said is true, then surely being a Jew is not advantageous! Surely being circumcised is not beneficial at all!”

BSB § What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

BLB What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of the circumcision?

AICNT What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the benefit of circumcision?

OEB What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision?

WEB Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

NET Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

LSV What, then, [is] the superiority of the Jew? Or what the profit of the circumcision?

FBV So does a Jew have any advantage? Does circumcision have any benefits?

TCNT What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

T4T Someone may object to this, saying, “If being circumcised does not cause God to accept us Jews, ◄there is no advantage in being a Jew over being a non-Jew./is there any advantage in being a Jew over being a non-Jew?► [RHQ] Being circumcised does not benefit us Jews at all!”

LEB Therefore, what is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the use of circumcision?

BBE How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

MOF No MOF ROM book available

ASV What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

DRA What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

YLT What, then, [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

DBY What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

RV What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

WBS What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

KJB What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
(What advantage then hath/has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?)

BB What preferment then hath ye Iew? or what auauntageth circumcision?
(What preferment then hath/has ye/you_all Yew? or what auauntageth circumcision?)

GNV What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?
(What is then the preferment of the Yewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?)

CB What furtheraunce then haue the Iewes? Or what avauntageth circucision?
(What furtheraunce then have the Yewes? Or what avauntageth circucision?)

TNT What preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision?
(What preferment then hath/has the Yewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision?)

WYC What thanne is more to a Jew, or what profit of circumcisioun?
(What then is more to a Yew, or what profit of circumcisioun?)

LUT Was haben denn die Juden Vorteils, oder was nützt die Beschneidung?
(What have because the Yuden Vorteils, or was nützt the Beschneidung?)

CLV Quid ergo amplius Judæo est? aut quæ utilitas circumcisionis?
(Quid ergo amplius Yudæo est? aut which utilitas circumcisionis?)

UGNT τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλια τῆς περιτομῆς?
(ti oun to perisson tou Youdaiou, aʸ tis haʸ ōfelia taʸs peritomaʸs?)

SBL-GNT Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς;
(Ti oun to perisson tou Youdaiou, aʸ tis haʸ ōfeleia taʸs peritomaʸs?)

TC-GNT Τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς;
(Ti oun to perisson tou Youdaiou, aʸ tis haʸ ōfeleia taʸs peritomaʸs?)

Key for above GNTs: red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

τί οὖν

what therefore_‹is›

Here, then indicates that what follows is a response to what Paul said in the previous chapter, especially what he said in 2:28–29. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “If these things are true, then what is”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλια τῆς περιτομῆς?

what therefore_‹is› the additional_‹thing› ˱of˲_the Jew or what_‹is› the (Some words not found in SR-GNT: τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς)

This verse contains two rhetorical questions connected by or. Paul is not asking for information, but here he is using these two questions to express the objections that a Jew might have to what Paul said in the previous chapter, especially what he said in 2:28–29. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “Then the Jew certainly has no advantage, and circumcision certainly has no benefit!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλια τῆς περιτομῆς

In this verse Paul is speaking as if he were a non-Christian Jew arguing against Paul. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off all of this material with quotation marks or with whatever punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

τί οὖν τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου, ἢ τίς ἡ ὠφέλια τῆς περιτομῆς

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of advantage or benefit, you could express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: “How then is being a Jew advantageous, or how is being circumcised beneficial”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

τοῦ Ἰουδαίου

˱of˲_the Jew

Paul is using the possessive form of the Jew to describe for whom there is the advantage. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “for the Jew”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

τῆς περιτομῆς

¬the ˱of˲_circumcision

Paul is using the possessive form of the circumcision to describe from where the benefit comes. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “that comes from circumcision” or “from being circumcised”

Parallel ROM 3:1