ROM 3:6 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST Then I would say, “Of course not! If God were unrighteous when he punishes us, then he could not possibly judge anyone in the world!”

AICNT By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

OEB Otherwise how can God judge the world?

WEBBE May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

LSV Let it not be! Since how will God judge the world?

FBV Of course not! How else could God judge the world?

TCNT Certainly not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

T4T We should certainly not conclude that God should not judge us, because if God did not judge us Jews, ◄it would not possibly be right for him to judge anyone in the world [MTY]!/how could he judge anyone in the world?► [MTY, RHQ]

LEB May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

BBE In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

Moff No Moff ROM book available

Wymth No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)

ASV God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

DRA (I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

YLT let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

Drby Far be the thought: since how shall [fn]God judge the world?

3.6 Elohim

RV God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

Wbstr By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?

KJB-1769 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

KJB-1611 God forbid: for then how shall God iudge the world?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?
(God forbyd. For how then shall God judge the world?)

Gnva God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?
(God forbid: else how shall God judge ye/you_all world? )

Cvdl God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?
(God forbyd. How might God the judge ye/you_all world?)

TNT God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde?
(God forbid. For how then shall God judge the world? )

Wycl Aftir man Y seie. God forbede. Ellis hou schal God deme this world?
(After man I seie. God forbede. Ellis how shall God deme this world?)

Luth Das sei ferne! Wie könnte sonst GOtt die Welt richten?
(The be ferne! How könnte sonst God the world richten?)

ClVg secundum hominem dico. Absit. Alioquin quomodo judicabit Deus hunc mundum?
(secundum hominem dico. Absit. Alioquin how yudicabit God this_one the_world? )

UGNT μὴ γένοιτο ἐπεὶ πῶς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον?
(maʸ genoito epei pōs krinei ho Theos ton kosmon?)

SBL-GNT μὴ γένοιτο· ἐπεὶ πῶς κρινεῖ ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον;
(maʸ genoito; epei pōs krinei ho theos ton kosmon;)

TC-GNT Μὴ γένοιτο· ἐπεὶ πῶς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον;
(Maʸ genoito; epei pōs krinei ho Theos ton kosmon; )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations

μὴ γένοιτο

never ˱it˲_/might/_become

See how you translated this in 3:4.

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

ἐπεὶ πῶς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον

otherwise how /will_be/_judging ¬the God the world

Here Paul is giving the reason why God is “not unrighteous for imposing his wrath,” as stated in the previous verse. Use a natural way in your language for indicating a reason. Alternate translation: [Because if God were unrighteous, how would he judge the world]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

πῶς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεὸς τὸν κόσμον

how /will_be/_judging ¬the God the world

In this clause Paul is not asking for information, but is using his question to emphasize that God could not judge the world if he were unrighteous. 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: [God certainly could not judge the world!]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τὸν κόσμον

the world

Here Paul uses world to refer to the people who live in the world. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the people in the world]

Parallel ROM 3:6