Romans 3:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Destruction and misery are in their ways;

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

Word-for-word

5/5

Readability

2/5

💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

👥 Who is this for?

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Pastors and teachers
Seminary students
Serious Bible students
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Rom 3:17
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17And the way of peace have they not known:
Rom 3:12-15
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12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one: {G2193} {G1520}
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Isa 59:7-8
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7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
Prov 1:15-16
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15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
Prov 2:13-15
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13Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Prov 24:2
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2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
Job 6:18
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18The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
Isa 3:8-9
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8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
Ps 55:10-11
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10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Ezek 7:25
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25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Prov 10:29
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29The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
Job 30:12-13
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74%
12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
Prov 4:19
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19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Job 31:3
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3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Prov 4:16-17
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16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
Ps 119:3
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3Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.
Lam 3:47
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47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Jer 23:12
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12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Prov 21:7
72%
7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.
Hos 7:13
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13Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Isa 9:16
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16For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Ps 73:18
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18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
2 Pet 2:2
72%
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Lam 3:66
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66Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
Prov 14:12
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12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.
Prov 11:3
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3The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Ps 36:3
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3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Ps 55:15
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15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
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71%
11Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Job 21:16
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16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Ps 28:3
71%
3Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Job 24:13
71%
13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Prov 6:15
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15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
Prov 1:31
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31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Prov 15:11
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11Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Prov 6:18
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18A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
Mic 2:1
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