Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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 As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. 14 What then shall we say Is injustice with God? It may not be. 15 I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.


Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

And now the fear of Jehovah shall be upon you: watch ye and do: for not iniquity with Jehovah our God, and lifting up of faces, and taking a gift

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.

Job 8:3

Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice?

Psalm 92:15

To announce that Jehovah is upright: my rock and no iniquity in him.

Genesis 18:25

Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?

Job 34:10-12

For this, ye men of heart, hear to me: far be it to God from doing evil; and the Almighty from iniquity.

Job 34:18-19

Saying to the king, Wickedness; (Belial) to nobles, Injustice.

Job 35:2

Didst thou reckon this for judgment thou saidst, My justice is above God?

Psalm 145:17

Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works.

Jeremiah 12:1

Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?

Romans 2:5

And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;

Romans 3:1

What then the superiority of the Jew or what the advantage of circumcision?

Romans 3:5-6

And if our injustice shall recommend the justice of God, what shall we say God not unjust bringing in anger? (I speak as man)

Revelation 15:3-4

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.

Revelation 16:7

And I heard another from the altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, true and just thy judgments.

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