Romans 3:16

Complete Jewish Bible

in their ways are ruin and misery,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,

King James Version (1611)
Destruction & misery are in their wayes:

King James Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways:

English Standard Version
in their paths are ruin and misery,

New American Standard Bible
DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,

New Century Version
Everywhere they go they cause ruin and misery.

Amplified Bible
DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,

Legacy Standard Bible
Destruction and misery are in their paths,

Berean Standard Bible
ruin and misery lie in their wake;

Contemporary English Version
Wherever they go, they leave ruin and destruction.

Darby Translation
ruin and misery [are] in their ways,

Easy-to-Read Version
Everywhere they go they cause trouble and ruin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

George Lamsa Translation
Destruction and misery are in their ways.

Good News Translation
they leave ruin and destruction wherever they go.

Lexham English Bible
destruction and distress are in their paths,

Literal Translation
ruin and misery are in their way;

American Standard Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways;

Bible in Basic English
Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

Hebrew Names Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways.

International Standard Version
Ruin and misery mark their ways.in their paths">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Crushing and misery are in their ways;

Murdock Translation
Destruction and anguish are in their paths:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.

English Revised Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways;

World English Bible
Destruction and misery are in their ways.

Weymouth's New Testament
Ruin and misery mark their path;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sorewe and cursidnesse ben in the weies of hem, and thei knewen not the weie of pees;

Update Bible Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways;

Webster's Bible Translation
Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

New English Translation
ruin and misery are in their paths ,

New King James Version
Destruction and misery are in their ways;

New Living Translation
Destruction and misery always follow them.

New Life Bible
Wherever they go, they destroy and make people suffer.

New Revised Standard
ruin and misery are in their paths,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Destruction and misery, are in their ways,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destruction and misery in their ways:

Revised Standard Version
in their paths are ruin and misery,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Destruccion and wretchednes are in their wayes.

Young's Literal Translation
Ruin and misery [are] in their ways.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Destruccion & wrechidnes are in their wayes,

Mace New Testament (1729)
destruction and misery are in their ways:

Simplified Cowboy Version
Pain and tears follow their every move.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised? ² Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God. ³ If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God's faithfulness? ⁴ Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, "so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial." ⁵ Now if our unrighteousness highlights God's righteousness, what should we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict his anger on us? (I am speaking here the way people commonly do.) ⁶ Heaven forbid! Else, how could God judge the world? ⁷ "But," you say, "if, through my lie, God's truth is enhanced and brings him greater glory, why am I still judged merely for being a sinner?" ⁸ Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), "Let us do evil, so that good may come of it"? Against them the judgment is a just one! ⁹ So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, are controlled by sin. ¹⁰ As the Tanakh puts it, "There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search Psalms 10:5 - His Isaiah 57:21 - General Isaiah 59:7 - wasting

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild animal which Adonai , God, had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree in the garden'?"

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it had a pleasing appearance and that the tree was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her; and he ate.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths.

Genesis 3:8
They heard the voice of Adonai , God, walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, so the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Adonai , God, among the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:9
Adonai , God, called to the man, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
He answered, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself."

Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I ordered you not to eat?"

Genesis 3:12
The man replied, "The woman you gave to be with me — she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will bring forth children in pain. Your desire will be toward your husband, but he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, "Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,' the ground is cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Destruction and misery are in their ways. This passage also is to be found in Isaiah 59:7, and may be understood either actively thus: all the ways they take, and methods they pursue, are to make their fellow creatures miserable, to ruin and destroy them; or passively, that by their sinful ways and vicious course of life, they themselves are brought to destruction and misery: the way they are walking in is, "the broad way, that leadeth to destruction", Matthew 7:13; the end of it, what it issues in, is eternal death, the destruction of the body and soul in hell, which will be attended with endless and inexpressible misery.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destruction - That is, they “cause” the destruction or the ruin of the reputation, happiness, and peace of others.

Misery - Calamity, ruin.

In their ways - Wherever they go. This is a striking description not only of the wicked then, but of all times. The tendency of their conduct is to destroy the virtue, happiness, and peace of all with whom they come in contact.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 3:16. Destruction and misery are in their ways — DESTRUCTION is their work, and MISERY to themselves and to the objects of their malice is the consequence of their impious and murderous conduct.