Romans 3:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

New Living Translation
Of course not! If God were not entirely fair, how would he be qualified to judge the world?

English Standard Version
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

Berean Study Bible
Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

New American Standard Bible
Far from it! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

NASB 1995
May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

NASB 1977
May it never be! For otherwise how will God judge the world?

Amplified Bible
Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Christian Standard Bible
Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Contemporary English Version
But the answer is, "No." Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

Good News Translation
By no means! If God is not just, how can he judge the world?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That's unthinkable! Otherwise, how would God be able to judge the world?

International Standard Version
Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

NET Bible
Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

New King James Version
Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?

King James 2000 Bible
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

New Heart English Bible
Absolutely not. For then how will God judge the world?

World English Bible
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

American King James Version
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

American Standard Version
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

A Faithful Version
MAY IT NEVER BE! Otherwise, how shall God judge the world?

Darby Bible Translation
Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

English Revised Version
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

Webster's Bible Translation
By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
God forbyd. How mighte God the iudge ye worlde?

Tyndale Bible of 1526
God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Let it not be! Since how will God judge the world?

Berean Literal Bible
Never may it be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Young's Literal Translation
let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

Smith's Literal Translation
It may not be: for how shall God judge the world.

Literal Emphasis Translation
May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

Catholic Public Domain Version
(I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God forbid! Otherwise, how will God judge the universe?

Lamsa Bible
Far be it: for then how could God judge the world?

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?

Godbey New Testament
It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

Haweis New Testament
God forbid: for how then shall God judge the world?

Mace New Testament
not at all: for then how could God judge the world?

Weymouth New Testament
No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?)

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?
















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