Romans 3:15

Amplified Bible

"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"They are always ready to kill someone.

Revised Standard Version
"Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Their fete are swyfte to sheed bloud.

Hebrew Names Version
"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

International Standard Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood.Proverbs 1:16; Isaiah 59:7-8;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

New Century Version
"They are always ready to kill people.

Update Bible Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Webster's Bible Translation
Their feet [are] swift to shed blood.

English Standard Version
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;

World English Bible
"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Weymouth's New Testament
"Their feet move swiftly to shed blood.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the feet of hem ben swifte to schede blood.

English Revised Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Berean Standard Bible
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Contemporary English Version
These people quickly become violent.

American Standard Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Bible in Basic English
Their feet are quick in running after blood;

Complete Jewish Bible
"Their feet rush to shed blood,

Darby Translation
swift their feet to shed blood;

Etheridge Translation
And their feet are swift to shed blood.

Murdock Translation
and their feet are swift to shed blood.

King James Version (1611)
Their feet are swift to shed blood.

New Living Translation
"They rush to commit murder.

New Life Bible
They are quick to hurt and kill people.

New Revised Standard
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Their feete are swift to shead blood.

George Lamsa Translation
They are over-quick to shed blood.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Swift, are their feet to shed blood;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their feet swift to shed blood:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their feete are swyft to shed blood.

Good News Translation
They are quick to hurt and kill;

Christian Standard Bible®
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

King James Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood:

Lexham English Bible
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Literal Translation
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Young's Literal Translation
Swift [are] their feet to shed blood.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their fete are swifte to shed bloude.

Mace New Testament (1729)
their feet are swift to shed blood.

New English Translation
" Their feet are swift to shed blood ,

New King James Version
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Simplified Cowboy Version
They are hotheaded and violent without cause.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Contextual Overview

¹Then what is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ²Great in every respect. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God [His very words]. ³What then? If some did not believe or were unfaithful [to God], their lack of belief will not nullify and make invalid the faithfulness of God and His word, will it? ⁴Certainly not! Let God be found true [as He will be], though every person be found a liar, just as it is written [in Scripture], "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED [by sinful men]." ⁵But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not wrong to inflict His wrath [on us], is He? (I am speaking in purely human terms.) ⁶Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? ⁷But [as you might say] if through my lie God's truth was magnified and abounded to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner? ⁸And why not say, (as some slanderously report and claim that we teach) "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? Their condemnation [by God] is just. ⁹Well then, are we [Jews] better off than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) are under the control of sin and subject to its power. ¹⁰As it is written and forever remains written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS [none that meets God's standard], NOT EVEN ONE.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 6:18, Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 59:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:4 - But Judges 9:32 - by night 1 Samuel 19:15 - Bring him 1 Samuel 22:11 - sent to call 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 1 Samuel 23:23 - I will search Ezra 4:23 - they went up Esther 3:13 - by posts Esther 5:14 - he caused Psalms 59:4 - run Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Ezekiel 38:11 - go up Mark 6:25 - with haste John 13:30 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:3
except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, 'You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.'"

Genesis 3:4
But the serpent said to the woman, "You certainly will not die!

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their feet are swift to shed blood. The sins of the heart and mouth are before described, and now the sins of action are taken notice of; for "the feet" are the instruments of motion and action: and when these are said to be "swift to shed blood", it denotes the readiness and eagerness of men, to murder innocent creatures; which shows the dreadful malice and hatred that is in them. The words are cited from Isaiah 59:7, and seem to point at the times of Manasseh, who shed so much innocent blood, as to fill Jerusalem with it from one end to the other.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their feet ... - The quotation in this and the two following verses, is abridged or condensed from Isaiah 59:7-8. The expressions occur in the midst of a description of the character of the nation in the time of the prophet. The apostle has selected a few expressions out of many, rather making a reference to the entire passage, than a formal quotation. The expression, “their feet are swift,” etc., denotes the eagerness of the nation to commit crime, particularly deeds of injustice and cruelty. They thirsted for the blood of innocence, and hasted to shed it, to gratify their malice, or to satisfy their vengeance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 3:15. Their feet are swift to shed blood — They make use of every means in their power to destroy the reputation and lives of the innocent.