Romans 3:18

Amplified Bible

"THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD [and His awesome power] BEFORE THEIR EYES."

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"They have no fear or respect for God."

Revised Standard Version
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
There is no feare of God before their eyes.

Hebrew Names Version
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

International Standard Version
There is no fear ofreverence for">[fn] God before their eyes."Psalm 36:1">[fn]Psalm 36:1;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."

New Century Version
"They have no fear of God." Psalm 36:1

Update Bible Version
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

English Standard Version
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

World English Bible
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The fear of God is not before their eyes.

Weymouth's New Testament
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the drede of God is not bifor her iyen.

English Revised Version
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Berean Standard Bible
There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Contemporary English Version
They don't even fear God."

American Standard Version
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Bible in Basic English
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Complete Jewish Bible
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Darby Translation
there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Etheridge Translation
And the fear of Aloha is not before their eyes.

Murdock Translation
and the fear of God is not before their eyes.

King James Version (1611)
There is no feare of God before their eyes.

New Living Translation
"They have no fear of God at all."

New Life Bible
They do not honor God with love and fear."

New Revised Standard
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Geneva Bible (1587)
The feare of God is not before their eies.

George Lamsa Translation
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There is no feare of God before their eyes.

Good News Translation
nor have they learned reverence for God."

Christian Standard Bible®
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

King James Version
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Lexham English Bible
The fear of God is not before their eyes."

Literal Translation
there is no fear of God before their eyes." LXX-Psa. 5:10; 139:4; 9:28; Isa. 59:7, 8; Psa. 35:2; MT-Psa. 14:1-3; 5:9; 140:3; 10:7; Isa. 59:7, 8; Psa. 36:1

Young's Literal Translation
There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is no feare of God before their eyes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
there is no fear of God before their eyes."

New English Translation
" There is no fear of God before their eyes ."

New King James Version
"There is no fear of God before their eyes." Psalms 36:1 ">[fn]

Simplified Cowboy Version
They fear a rock in their boot more than they fear God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."

Legacy Standard Bible
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

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

Genesis 20:11, Psalms 36:1, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 16:6, Proverbs 23:17, Luke 23:40, Revelation 19:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:17 - fear Deuteronomy 25:18 - feared Jeremiah 2:19 - and that my Jeremiah 36:24 - they

Cross-References

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."

Joshua 23:13
know and understand with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

Job 1:21
He said, "Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother's womb, And naked I will return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD."

Job 5:5
"The hungry devour his harvest And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; The trap opens for [his] wealth.

Job 31:40
Let thorns grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed and cockleburs instead of barley." So the words of Job [with his friends] are finished.

Psalms 90:3
You turn man back to dust, And say, "Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!"

Psalms 104:2
[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate [for their lack of honor and their wrong-doing traps them]; He who guards himself [with godly wisdom] will be far from them and avoid the consequences they suffer.

Proverbs 24:31
And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, And nettles were covering its surface, And its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is no fear of God before their eyes. The place referred to is Psalms 36:1, by the "fear of God", is not meant a fear of God's wrath, of hell and damnation; nor a fearful distrust of his presence, power, providence, and grace; much less an hypocritical fear; but a reverential affection for God, and which is peculiar to the children of God, which springs from a sense of divine goodness, is attended with holiness of heart and life, is consistent with faith, even full assurance of it, and with spiritual joy in its highest degree; it stands opposed to pride and haughtiness, and is a blessing of the covenant of grace: now this is not to be found in unregenerate men, for this springs from grace, and not nature, and is only implanted in the heart in conversion; it appears from the whole life and conversation of unconverted men, that the fear of God is not in their hearts, nor before their eyes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no fear of God - Psalms 36:1. The word “fear” here denotes “reverence, awe, veneration.” There is no such regard or reverence for the character, authority, and honor of God as to restrain them from crime. Their conduct shows that they are not withheld from the commission of iniquity by any regard to the fear or favor of God. The only thing that will be effectual in restraining people from sin, will be a regard to the honor and Law of God.

In regard to these quotations from the Old Testament, we may make the following remarks.

(1) They fully establish the position of the apostle, that the nation, as such, was far from being righteous, or that they could be justified by their own works. By quotations from no less than six distinct places in their own writings, referring to different periods of their history, he shows what the character of the nation was. And as this was the characteristic of those times. it followed that a Jew could not hope to be saved simply because he was a Jew. He needed, as much as the Gentile, the benefit of some other plan of salvation.

(2) These passages show us how to use the Old Testament, and the facts of ancient history. They are to be adduced not as showing directly what the character of man is, now, but to show what human nature is. They demonstrate what man is when under the most favorable circumstances; in different situations; and at different periods of the world. The concurrence of past facts shows what the race is. And as past facts are uniform; as man thus far, in the most favorable circumstances, has been sinful; it follows that this is the characteristic of man everywhere. It is settled by the facts of the world, just as any other characteristic of man is settled by the uniform occurrence of facts in all circumstances and times. Ancient facts, and quotations of Scripture, therefore, are to be adduced as proofs of the tendency of human nature. So Paul used them, and so it is lawful for us to use them.

(3) It may be observed further, that the apostle has given a view of human depravity which is very striking. He does not confine it to one faculty of the mind, or to one set of actions; he specifies each member and each faculty as being perverse, and inclined to evil. The depravity extends to all the departments of action. The tongue, the mouth, the feet, the “lips,” are all involved in it; all are perverted, and all become the occasion of the commission of sin. The entire man is corrupt; and the painful description extends to every department of action.

(4) If such was the character of the Jewish nation under all its advantages, what must have been the character of the pagan? We are prepared thus to credit all that is said in Rom. i., and elsewhere, of the sad state of the pagan world.

(5) What a melancholy view we have thus of human nature. From whatever quarter we contemplate it, we come to the same conclusion. Whatever record we examine; whatever history we read; whatever time or period we contemplate; we find the same facts, and are forced to the same conclusion. All are involved in sin, and are polluted, and ruined, and helpless. Over these ruins we should sit down and weep, and lift our eyes with gratitude to the God of mercy, that he has pitied us in our low estate, and has devised a plan by which “these ruins may be built again,” and lost, fallen man be raised up to forfeited “glory, honor, and immortality.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. — This completes their bad character; they are downright atheists, at least practically such. They fear not God's judgments, although his eye is upon them in their evil ways. There is not one article of what is charged against the Jews and Gentiles here that may not be found justified by the histories of both, in the most ample manner. And what was true of them in those primitive times is true of them still. With very little variation, these are the evils in which the vast mass of mankind delight and live. Look especially at men in a state of warfare; look at the nations of Europe, who enjoy most of the light of God; see what has taken place among them from 1792 to 1814; see what destruction of millions, and what misery of hundreds of millions, have been the consequence of Satanic excitement in fallen, ferocious passions! O SIN, what hast thou done! How many myriads of souls hast thou hurried, unprepared, into the eternal world! Who, among men or angels, can estimate the greatness of this calamity! this butchery of souls! What widows, what orphans, are left to deplore their sacrificed husbands and parents, and their own consequent wretchedness! And whence sprang all this? From that, whence come all wars and fightings; the evil desires of men; the lust of dominion; the insatiable thirst for money; and the desire to be sole and independent. This is the sin that ruined our first parents, expelled them from paradise, and which has descended to all their posterity; and proves fully, incontestably proves, that we are their legitimate offspring; the fallen progeny of fallen parents; children in whose ways are destruction and misery; in whose heart there is no faith; and before whose eyes there is nothing of the fear of God.