Other translations
American Standard Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
What, therefore? Shall we sin because we are not under The Written Law but under grace? God forbid!
Darby Bible Translation
What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
God's Word
Then what is the implication? Should we sin because we are not controlled by laws but by God's favor? That's unthinkable!
Holman Christian Standard Bible
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
International Standard Version
What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not!
NET Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
New American Standard Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
New International Version
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
New Living Translation
Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!
Webster's Bible Translation
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
Weymouth New Testament
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
The World English Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
EasyEnglish Bible
Someone might say: ‘So we have a new life because God is kind to us. God's Law that he gave to Moses does not rule us any more. Then maybe we should continue to do wrong things. It will not make any difference.’ No, that is not true!
Young‘s Literal Translation
What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
New Life Version
What are we to do then? Are we to sin because we have God’s loving-favor and are not living by the Law? No, not at all!
Revised Geneva Translation
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!
The Voice Bible
So what do we do now? Throw ourselves into lives of sin because we are cloaked in grace and don’t have to answer to the law? Absolutely not!
Living Bible
Does this mean that now we can go ahead and sin and not worry about it? (For our salvation does not depend on keeping the law but on receiving God’s grace!) Of course not!
New Catholic Bible
What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Of course not!
Legacy Standard Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Jubilee Bible 2000
What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No, in no wise.
Christian Standard Bible
What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Amplified Bible © 1954
What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we live not under Law but under God’s favor and mercy? Certainly not!
New Century Version
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!
The Message
So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
What then? Should we continue to sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
New Matthew Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Good News Translation®
What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!
Wycliffe Bible
What therefore? Shall we do sin [Shall we sin], for we be not under the law, but under grace? God forbid [Far be it].
New Testament for Everyone
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Contemporary English Version
What does all this mean? Does it mean we are free to sin, because we are ruled by God's gift of undeserved grace and not by the Law? Certainly not!
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
J.B. Phillips New Testament
Now, what shall we do? Shall we go on sinning because we have no Law to condemn us any more, but are living under grace? Never! Just think what it would mean. You belong to the power which you choose to obey, whether you choose sin, whose reward is death, or God, obedience to whom means the reward of righteousness. Thank God that you, who were at one time the servants of sin, honestly responded to the impact of Christ’s teaching when you came under its influence. Then, released from the service of sin, you entered the service of righteousness. (I use an everyday illustration because human nature grasps truth more readily that way.) In the past you voluntarily gave your bodies to the service of vice and wickedness—for the purpose of becoming wicked. So, now, give yourselves to the service of righteousness—for the purpose of becoming really good. For when you were employed by sin you owed no duty to righteousness. Yet what sort of harvest did you reap from those things that today you blush to remember? In the long run those things mean one thing only—death.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Common English Bible © 2011
So what? Should we sin because we aren’t under Law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Amplified Bible © 2015
What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under [God’s] grace? Certainly not!
English Standard Version Anglicised
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!
New American Standard Bible
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Far from it!
The Expanded Bible
·So what should we do [L What then; 3:9]? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? ·No [Absolutely not; May it never be; v. 2]!
Tree of Life Version
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Revised Standard Version
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
New International Reader's Version
What should we say then? Should we sin because we are not ruled by the law but by God’s grace? Not at all!
BRG Bible
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid!
Worldwide English (New Testament)
What then? The law does not rule over us now. God's loving kindness rules over us. So, shall we do wrong things? No, never!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Orthodox Jewish Bible
What then? Should we commit averah, because we are not under the epoch of Torah but under the epoch of Chesed? Chas v’shalom!
Names of God Bible
Then what is the implication? Should we sin because we are not controlled by God’s laws but by God’s favor? That’s unthinkable!
Modern English Version
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid!
Easy-to-Read Version
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? Certainly not!
International Children’s Bible
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!
Lexham English Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
New International Version - UK
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
Disciples Literal New Testament
Therefore, what? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? May it never be!