Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world?

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

International Standard Version

Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

A Conservative Version

May it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

An Understandable Version

Certainly not, for then how could He judge the world?

Anderson New Testament

It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?

Bible in Basic English

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

Common New Testament

Certainly not! For then how could God judge the world?

Daniel Mace New Testament

not at all: for then how could God judge the world?

Darby Translation

Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

Godbey New Testament

It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

Goodspeed New Testament

By no means, for then how could he judge the world?

John Wesley New Testament

I speak as a man. God forbid; for then how should God judge the world?

Julia Smith Translation

It may not be: for how shall God judge the world

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

God forbid. For how then shall God judge the world?

Moffatt New Testament

Never! In that case, how could he judge the world?

Montgomery New Testament

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

The Emphasized Bible

Far be it! Else how shall God judge the world?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

Otherwise how can God judge the world?

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

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

Williams New Testament

Not at all! If that were so, how could He judge the world?

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

It could not be! for, then, how shall God judge the world?

Worsley New Testament

for then how shall God judge the world?

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

ἐπεί 
Epei 
Usage: 26

how
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

κρίνω 
Krino 
Usage: 84

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

κρίνω 
Krino 
Usage: 84

Context Readings

Jews Still Have An Advantage

5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Let it not be! For then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner?


Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 8:3

Does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 34:17-19

Shall one who hates right govern? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?

Psalm 9:8

And He shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall judge the peoples in uprightness.

Psalm 11:5-7

Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,

Psalm 50:6

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself is judge. Selah.

Psalm 96:13

before Jehovah; for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth; He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.

Psalm 98:9

before Jehovah; for He comes to judge the earth; with righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples in uprightness.

Acts 17:31

because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

Romans 2:16

in a day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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