Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

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 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.


Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Psalm 92:15

To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 34:10-12

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Job 34:18-19

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Job 35:2

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Psalm 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Romans 2:5

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Romans 3:1

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

Romans 3:5-6

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a 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 marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Revelation 16:7

And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

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