Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

New American Standard Bible

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

King James Version

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Holman Bible

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

International Standard Version

What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not!

A Conservative Version

What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen!

American Standard Version

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Amplified

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Certainly not!

An Understandable Version

What shall we say then? Is God guilty of wrongdoing? Certainly not!

Anderson New Testament

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with. God? It can not be.

Common New Testament

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Certainly not!

Daniel Mace New Testament

What do we say then? is there injustice in God?

Darby Translation

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

Godbey New Testament

Then what shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be so.

Goodspeed New Testament

What do we conclude? That God is guilty of injustice? By no means.

John Wesley New Testament

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.

Julia Smith Translation

What then shall we say Is injustice with God? It may not be.

King James 2000

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Lexham Expanded Bible

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

Modern King James verseion

What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

What shall we say then? Is there any unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Moffatt New Testament

Then are we to infer that there is injustice in God? Never!

Montgomery New Testament

What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed.

NET Bible

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

New Heart English Bible

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be.

Noyes New Testament

What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

Sawyer New Testament

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.

The Emphasized Bible

What, then, shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

Thomas Haweis New Testament

What shall we say therefore? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Twentieth Century New Testament

What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid!

Webster

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.

Weymouth New Testament

What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in God?

Williams New Testament

What are we then to conclude? It is not that there is injustice in God, is it? Of course not!

World English Bible

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Worrell New Testament

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!

Worsley New Testament

What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God?

Youngs Literal Translation

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

shall we say
ἐρέω 
Ereo 
Usage: 41

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

G93
ἀδικία 
Adikia 
Usage: 20

with
παρά 
Para 
of, with, from, by ... side, at, than,
Usage: 145

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

Context Readings

God's Sovereign Choice To Show Mercy

13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate. 14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said. 15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.


Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

Job 8:3

Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Genesis 18:25

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Job 34:10-12

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Job 34:18-19

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

Job 35:2

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Jeremiah 12:1

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Romans 3:1

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

Romans 3:5-6

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)?

Revelation 15:3-4

And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

Revelation 16:7

And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

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