Parallel Verses

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.

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 It is written: I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau. 14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 He says to Moses, I will show mercy to the one I choose to show mercy, and I will feel compassion for the one I choose to feel compassion.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:7

Do your work in honor of him and know that he will not allow you to be unfair to anyone or to take bribes.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Psalm 92:15

They make it known that Jehovah is upright. He is my rock. He is never unrighteous.

Genesis 18:25

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Job 34:10-12

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Job 34:18-19

Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people!

Job 35:2

Do you think this to be just? You say: 'I am in the right before God.'

Psalm 145:17

Jehovah is righteous in all his ways. He is kind in all his deeds.

Jeremiah 12:1

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

Romans 2:5

Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Romans 3:1

What then is the superiority of the Jew? What is the benefit of circumcision?

Romans 3:5-6

If our unrighteousness defines God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his anger is he? I speak in human terms.

Revelation 15:3-4

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

Revelation 16:7

I heard another say: Even so, Jehovah God the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. (Deuteronomy 32:4) (Psalm 145:17) (Exodus 6:3)

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