Romans 3:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the way of peace have they not known:

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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.

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💎 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.

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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

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Referenced Verses

Isa 59:8 : 8 The 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.
Luke 1:79 : 79 To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Matt 7:14 : 14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
Isa 57:21 : 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Isa 59:7-8
2 verses
87%
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.
Rom 3:15-16
2 verses
85%
15Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Rom 3:18
81%
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Prov 4:19
75%
19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Isa 57:21
75%
21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isa 48:22
74%
22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.
Ps 82:5
74%
5They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Ps 119:3
74%
3Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.
Jer 5:4
74%
4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
Job 24:13
74%
13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Rom 3:11-12
2 verses
73%
11There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one: {G2193} {G1520}
Isa 44:18
73%
18They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Ezek 7:25
73%
25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Ps 35:20
73%
20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
Amos 3:10
73%
10For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Jas 3:18
73%
18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
Prov 1:29
73%
29For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
Rom 10:2-3
2 verses
73%
2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, {G1343} they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Heb 3:10
73%
10Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
Ps 28:3
72%
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.
Jer 8:11
72%
11And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer 4:22
72%
22For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jer 6:14
71%
14They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Prov 4:16-17
2 verses
71%
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.
Job 18:21
71%
21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 34:27
71%
27Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:
Ps 14:3-4
2 verses
71%
3They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Isa 3:9
71%
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.
Jer 23:17
71%
17They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
Deut 32:28
71%
28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
John 16:3
71%
3And these things will they do, {G5213} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Ps 135:17
71%
17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
Ps 36:1
70%
1For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Job 21:14
70%
14And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 17:4
70%
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
Hos 5:4
70%
4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
Job 30:13
70%
13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
Ps 53:4
70%
4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?
Jer 9:3
70%
3And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
Prov 2:15
70%
15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Heb 12:14
70%
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
Ps 120:7
70%
7I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
Prov 19:3
70%
3The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.
Job 21:29
70%
29Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,