Romans 3:15

Weymouth New Testament

"Their feet move swiftly to shed blood.

Parallel Translations

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

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

King James Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood:

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

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

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

Amplified Bible
"THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

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

Legacy Standard Bible
"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.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Their feet rush to shed blood,

Darby Translation
swift their feet to shed blood;

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

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

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

Good News Translation
They are quick to hurt and kill;

Lexham English Bible
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Literal Translation
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;

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]

Etheridge Translation
And their feet are swift to shed blood.

Murdock Translation
and their feet are swift to shed blood.

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

English Revised 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;

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

Update Bible Version
Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

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;

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their feet swift to shed blood:

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

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

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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They are hotheaded and violent without cause.

Contextual Overview

¹ What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit is to be derived from circumcision? ² The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth. ³ For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless? ⁴ No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest." ⁵ But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous--I speak in our everyday language-- when He inflicts punishment? ⁶ No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?) ⁷ If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged all the same as a sinner? ⁸ And why should we not say--for so they wickedly misrepresent us, and so some charge us with arguing--"Let us do evil that good may come"? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just. ⁹ What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they? Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin. ¹⁰ Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.

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

Matthew 1:23
"Mark! The maiden will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call His name Immanuel" --a word which signifies `God with us'.

Matthew 1:25
but did not live with her until she had given birth to a son. The child's name he called JESUS.

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he exclaimed, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 12:34
O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Matthew 13:38
the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.

Matthew 23:33
O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?

Mark 16:18
They shall take up venomous snakes, and if they drink any deadly poison it shall do them no harm whatever. They shall lay their hands on the sick, and the sick shall recover."

Luke 1:76
And you moreover, O child, shall be called Prophet of the Most High; For you shall go on in front before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,

Luke 10:19
"I have given you power to tread serpents and scorpions underfoot, and to trample on all the power of the Enemy; and in no case shall anything do you harm.

Luke 22:53
While day after day I was with you in the Temple, you did not lay hands upon me; but to you belongs this hour--and the power of darkness."

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.