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Complete Jewish Bible

Romans 3:17

and the way of shalom they do not know.

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.
Darby Translation
and way of peace they have not known:
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 Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised? 2 Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God. 3 If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God's faithfulness? 4 Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, "so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial." 5 Now if our unrighteousness highlights God's righteousness, what should we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict his anger on us? (I am speaking here the way people commonly do.) 6 Heaven forbid! Else, how could God judge the world? 7 "But," you say, "if, through my lie, God's truth is enhanced and brings him greater glory, why am I still judged merely for being a sinner?" 8 Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), "Let us do evil, so that good may come of it"? Against them the judgment is a just one! 9 So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentiles alike, are controlled by sin. 10 As the Tanakh puts it, "There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands,

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
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, ‘You are neither to eat from it nor touch it, or you will die.'"
Genesis 3:5
because God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it had a pleasing appearance and that the tree was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her; and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths.
Genesis 3:9
Adonai , God, called to the man, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I ordered you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:13
Adonai , God, said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me, so I ate."
Genesis 3:14
Adonai , God, said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all livestock and wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will bring forth children in pain. Your desire will be toward your husband, but he will rule over you."

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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