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Tyndale New Testament

Romans 3:16

Destruccion and wretchednes are in their wayes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Boasting;   Crime;   Depravity of Man;   Quotations and Allusions;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Comfort-Misery;   Misery;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sinners;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fall of Man, the;   Life, Eternal;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sin;   Way;   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;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Law;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Quotations;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adam;   Brotherhood (2);   Destruction;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Law;   Quotations;   Romans Epistle to the;   Unity;   World;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fall;   Righteousness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Justification;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 16;  

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
in their ways are ruin and misery,
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
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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,
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 What preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision? 2 Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them was committed the worde of God 3 What then though some of them did not beleve? shall their vnbeleve make the promes of god with out effecte? 4 God forbid. Let god be true and all men lyars as it is written: That thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinge and shuldest overcome when thou arte iudged. 5 Yf oure vnrightewesnes make the rightewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? Is God vnrighteous which taketh vengeauce? I speake after the maner of me. 6 God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde? 7 Yf the veritie of God appere moare excellent thorow my lye vnto his prayse why am I hence forth iudged as a synner? 8 and saye not rather (as men evyll speake of vs and as some affirme that we saye) let vs do evyll that good maye come therof. Whose damnacion is iuste. 9 What saye we then? Are we better then they? No in no wyse. For we have all ready proved how that both Iewes and Gentils are all vnder synne 10 as it is writte: There is none righteous no not one:

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

John 16:21
A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe because her houre is come: but assone as she is delivered of the chylde she remembreth no moare the anguysshe for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wyfe hath not power over her awne body: but the husbande. And lykewyse the man hath not power over his awne body: but the wyfe
1 Corinthians 11:3
I wolde ye knew that Christ is the heed of every man. And the man is the womans heed. And God is Christes heed.
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let youre wyves kepe silence in the cogregacions. For it is not permitted vnto them to speake: but let them be vnder obedience as sayth the lawe.
Colossians 3:18
Wyves submit youre selves vnto youre awne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they shall saye peace and no daunger than commeth on the soden destruccion as the travalynge of a woma with childe and they shall not scape.
1 Timothy 2:15
Notwithstondynge thorow bearinge of chyldre they shalbe saved so they continue in fayth love and holynes with discrecion.
Titus 2:5
to be discrete chast huswyfly good and obediet vnto their awne husbandes that the worde of god be not evyll spoken of.

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.


 
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