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Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

KJV

Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; μὴ ἀδικία παρὰ τῷ θεῷ; μὴ γένοιτο.

Greek NT

Quid ergo dicemus ? numquid iniquitas apud Deum ? Absit.

Vulgate

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

ASV

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀδικία
adikia
noun · 26×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210216.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210217.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 1.—That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine Our Attention in This Book to His Last Judgment. Intending to speak, in dependence on God’s grace, of the day of His final judgment, and to affirm it against the ungodly and incredulous, we must first of all lay, as it were, in the foundation of the edifice the divine declarations. Those pe…
I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren. Calvin shows Paul's anguish over Israel's rejection, but insists that God's word has not failed. Not all who descend from Israel are Israel. God's purpose according to election stands: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. The potter has power over the clay to make one vessel unto honour and another unto d…

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 19:7 — Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
  • 2Chr 19:7 — Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
  • Deut 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Gen 18:25 — That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rig
  • Jer 12:1 — Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
  • Job 8:3 — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
  • Job 34:10 — Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
  • Job 34:10 — Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
  • Job 34:17 — Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
  • Job 34:18 — Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
  • Job 35:2 — Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
  • Matt 20:13 — But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
  • Ps 92:15 — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 92:15 — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 145:17 — The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
  • Rev 15:3 — And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
  • Rev 16:7 — And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
  • Rom 2:2 — But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
  • Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:1 — What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
  • Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
  • Rom 3:5 — But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
  • Rom 9:30 — What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.