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The Darby Translation

Romans 3:17

and way of peace they have not known:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Boasting;   Crime;   Depravity of Man;   Quotations and Allusions;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - No;   Peace Invoked;   Rest-Unrest;   Unrest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Life, Eternal;   Peace, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Calvinists;   Justification;   Man;   Zeal;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fall of Man;   Sin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Romans, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Accountability, Age of;   Anthropology;   God;   Innocence, Innocency;   Regeneration;   Romans, Book of;   Sin;   Typology;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Law;   Quotations;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adam;   Brotherhood (2);   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Law;   Quotations;   Romans Epistle to the;   Unity;   World;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fall;   Righteousness;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Way;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Justification;   Way;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and the path of peace they have not known.
King James Version (1611)
And the way of peace haue they not knowen.
King James Version
And the way of peace have they not known:
English Standard Version
and the way of peace they have not known."
New American Standard Bible
AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE WAY OF PEACE."
New Century Version
They don't know how to live in peace." Isaiah 59:7–8
Amplified Bible
AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE PATH OF PEACE."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."
Legacy Standard Bible
And the path of peace they have not known."
Berean Standard Bible
and the way of peace they have not known.
Contemporary English Version
They don't know how to live in peace.
Complete Jewish Bible
and the way of shalom they do not know.
Easy-to-Read Version
They don't know how to live in peace."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.
George Lamsa Translation
They have not known the way of peace.
Good News Translation
They have not known the path of peace,
Lexham English Bible
and they have not known the way of peace.
Literal Translation
and they did not know a way of peace;
American Standard Version
And the way of peace have they not known:
Bible in Basic English
And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
Hebrew Names Version
The way of shalom, they haven't known."
International Standard Version
They have not learned the path to peace.Isaiah 59:7-8; Proverbs 1:16">[fn]
Etheridge Translation
And the way of peace they have not known;
Murdock Translation
and the path of peacefulness they have not known:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they way of peace haue they not knowen.
English Revised Version
And the way of peace have they not known:
World English Bible
The way of peace, they haven't known."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Destruction and misery are in their ways, And they have not known the way of peace:
Weymouth's New Testament
and the way to peace they have not known."
Update Bible Version
And the way of peace they have not known:
Webster's Bible Translation
And the way of peace have they not known.
New English Translation
and the way of peace they have not known ."
New King James Version
And the way of peace they have not known." Isaiah 59:7, 8 ">[fn]
New Living Translation
They don't know where to find peace."
New Life Bible
They know nothing about peace.
New Revised Standard
and the way of peace they have not known."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the way of peace, have they not known:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the way of peace they have not known.
Revised Standard Version
and the way of peace they do not know."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the waye of peace they have not knowen.
Young's Literal Translation
And a way of peace they did not know.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye waye of peace haue they not knowne.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and the way of peace have they not known.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They've given up looking for peace.

Contextual Overview

1 What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision? 2 Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God. 3 For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? 4 Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man. 6 Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner? 8 and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just. 9 What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin: 10 according as it is written, There is not a righteous [man], not even one;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 5:1, Isaiah 57:21, Isaiah 59:8, Matthew 7:14, Luke 1:79

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:18 - What hast thou to do Isaiah 48:22 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:5
but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:6
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:9
And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou?
Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the way of peace have they not known. This is a citation front Isaiah 59:8, and expresses the ignorance of mankind, with regard to true peace, and the way unto it: men are naturally ignorant of the way of peace with God; of the first step which God took towards it; of the council and covenant of peace, in which the scheme of it was drawn, and the method fixed; of Christ the peacemaker, and of the way in which he has made it; and of the Gospel, which reveals and publishes it. They are ignorant of the true way of enjoying peace of conscience; they have no true peace of mind, their consciences are often tortured; and though they may have a stupid and secure peace, yet nothing that is true, real, and solid; for they are without the Spirit, whose fruit is peace; and without faith in Christ, by which true peace only is enjoyed; nor are they spiritually minded, which is life and peace; nor have they any knowledge of the way to have it; they are ready to think it must be had by doing something of their own, and not that it is to be had only in Christ, in his blood and righteousness. They are ignorant of the paths of wisdom, which are peace; peace is enjoyed in them, they lead unto it, and issue in it: they know not the way to eternal peace; they imagine something done by the creature is the way; and are ignorant that Christ is the only way of salvation, the true way to eternal life, everlasting peace and happiness: yea, they know not the way of peace among men, and one another; nor will they do that which is just and right, in order to support and maintain it, but are unjust, deceitful, and quarrelsome; they do not study peace, but rather contention, which they like and approve of. The Jews talk x much of their good nature, affability, and condescension, and of their doing this and that, and the other thing, מפני דרכי שלום, "because of the ways of peace".

x Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 8, 9. T. Hieros. Demai, fol. 24. 1. Maimon. Obede Cochabim, c. 10. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the way of peace ... - What tends to promote their own happiness, or that of others, they do not regard. Intent on their plans of evil, they do not know or regard what is suited to promote the welfare of themselves or others. This is the case with all who are selfish, and who seek to gain their own purposes of crime and ambition.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. And the way of peace have they not known — They neither have peace in themselves, nor do they suffer others to live in quiet: they are brooders and fomenters of discord.


 
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