Romans 3:15

Christian Standard 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.

Amplified Bible
"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

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;

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

¹So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ²Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God. ³What then? If some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? ⁴Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written: ⁵But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath? ⁶Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world? ⁷But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner? ⁸And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved! ⁹What then? Are we any better off? Not at all! For we have already charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, ¹⁰as it is written:

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 the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Genesis 3:4
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:

Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike 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.