Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
New American Standard Bible
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?
Modern King James verseion
Let it not be! For then how shall 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
Ginomai
Epei
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in Romans 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jews Still Have An Advantage
5 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.) 6 May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? 7 But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill [the] righteous with [the] wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?"
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice, {or} Shaddai pervert righteousness?
Job 34:17-19
Shall [he who] hates justice really govern? Or will you declare [the] Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?--
Psalm 9:8
And he will judge [the] world with righteousness. He will judge [the] peoples with equity.
Psalm 11:5-7
Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.
Psalm 50:6
And [the] heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah
Psalm 96:13
before Yahweh, for he is coming; for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge [the] world with righteousness, and [the] peoples with his faithfulness.
Psalm 98:9
before Yahweh, for [he is] coming to judge the earth. He will judge [the] world with righteousness and [the] peoples with equity.
Acts 17:31
because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone [by] raising him from the dead."
Romans 2:16
on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.