Romans 3:23
New International Version
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

New Living Translation
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

English Standard Version
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Berean Standard Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Berean Literal Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

King James Bible
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

New King James Version
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

New American Standard Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

NASB 1995
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

NASB 1977
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Legacy Standard Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Amplified Bible
since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God,

Christian Standard Bible
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

American Standard Version
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because all of them have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God,

Contemporary English Version
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God.

English Revised Version
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God's glory.

Good News Translation
everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence.

International Standard Version
since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.

Literal Standard Version
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God—

Majority Standard Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

New American Bible
all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.

NET Bible
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

New Revised Standard Version
since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

New Heart English Bible
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Webster's Bible Translation
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Weymouth New Testament
for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,

World English Bible
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Young's Literal Translation
for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Righteousness through Faith
22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.…

Cross References
Genesis 8:21
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You--for there is no one who does not sin--and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Romans 3:9
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.


Treasury of Scripture

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

all have.

Romans 3:9,19
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; …

Romans 1:28-32
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; …

Romans 2:1
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

come.

Hebrews 4:1
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

of.

Romans 5:2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:12
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

2 Thessalonians 2:14
Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Romans 3
1. The Jews prerogative;
3. which they have not lost;
9. howbeit the law convinces them also of sin;
20. therefore no one is justified by the law;
28. but all, without difference, by faith, only;
31. and yet the law is not abolished.














(23) All have sinned and come short.--Strictly, all sinned; the Apostle looking back upon an act done in past time under the old legal dispensation, without immediate reference to the present: he then goes on to say that the result of that act (as distinct from the act itself) continues on into the present. The result is that mankind, in a body, as he now sees them, and before they come within the range of the new Christian system, fall short of, miss, or fail to obtain, the glory of God.

Glory of God.--What is this glory? Probably not here, as in Romans 8:18; Romans 8:21, the glory which will be inaugurated for the saints at the Parusia, or Second Coming of the Messiah--for that is something future--but, rather, something which is capable of being conferred in the present, viz., the glory which comes from the favour and approval of God. This favour and approval Jew and Gentile alike had hitherto failed to obtain, but it was now thrown open to all who became members of the Messianic kingdom. (Comp. for the sense, Romans 2:29, and for the use of the word, as well as the sense, John 12:43, "they loved the praise [glory] of men more than the praise [glory] of God.")

Verse 23. - For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. The "glory of God," of which all men are here said to come short (ὑσεροῦνται), has been taken to mean

(1) honour or praise from God. "Dei favore et approbatione carent" (Sehleusner). So decidedly Meyer, Tholuek, Alford, and others. In this case Θεοῦ would be the gen. auctoris, which Meyer argues is probable from its being so in Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνη. This argument (which is not worth much in any case) tells the other way if, as we hold, it is not so in the latter phrase. For the New Testament use of δόξα in the sense of "praise" or "honour," 1 Thessalonians 2:6 is adduced (Οὔτε ζητοῦντες ἐν ἀνθρώποις δόξαν); also John 5:44 (Δόξαν παρὰ ἀλλήλων λαμβάνοντες καὶ τὴν δόξαν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ μόνου Θεοῦ οὐ ζητεῖτε); and especially John 12:43, where δόξα is, as here, followed by the genitive Θεοῦ without any connecting preposition: Ἠγάπησαν γὰρ τὴν δόξαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων μᾶλλον ἤπερ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ("the praise of God," Authorized Version). But, even apart from the different, and in itself more obvious, meaning of the phrase, δόξα τοῦ Θεου, where it occurs elsewhere, it is at least a question whether in the last cited passage it can be taken to mean praise or honour from God. It comes immediately after the quotation from Isaiah 6:9, etc., followed by "These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory (τὴν δόξα αὐτοῦ), and spoke of him." Hence the meaning of John 12:43 may probably be that the persons spoken of loved mundane glory (cf. Matthew 4:8; Matthew 6:29) rather than the Divine glory, seen in the vision of faith, manifested to the world in Christ (cf. John 1:14, "We beheld his glory," etc.), and "loved" by those who have not the eyes blinded and the heart hardened. So, even in the previous passage of St. John's Gospel (John 5:41, 44), ἡ δόξα ἡ παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ may denote man's participation in the Divine glory, rather than praise or honour, while δόξα παρὰ ἀλλήλων may mean the mundane glory conferred by men on each other. These considerations commend, in the passage before us, the interpretation

(2) "Significatur ipsius Dei viventis gloria, vitam tribuens (cf. Romans 6:4); ad quam homini, si non peccasset, patuit aditus: sod peccator ab illo fine sue excidit, neque jam eum assequitur, neque gloriam illam, quae in illo effulsisset, ullo mode tolerare potest: Hebrews 12:20, et seq.; Psalm 68:2; quo fit ut morti sit obnoxius: nam gloria et immortalitas suut synonyma, et sic mors et corruptio. Absunt a gloria Dei, i.e. a summo fine homiuis aberrarunt. At justificati recuporant spom illius glorise. Vid. omnino c. 5:2, 11, 17; 8:30, etc." (Bengel). Further, the sense which the same expression seems evidently to bear in Romans 5:2 of this Epistle is of importance for our determination of its meaning here. We are not justified in understanding, with some interpreters, any specific reference to the "image of God" (cf. 1 Corinthians 11:7, εἰκὼν καὶ δόξα Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων) in which man was created, and which has been lost by the Fall, there being nothing to suggest it, or, with others, exclusively to the future glory, since the present ὑστεροῦνται seems to denote a present deficiency. The general conception appears sufficiently plain in Bengel's exposition above given, according to which "the glory of God" means the glory of the Divine righteousness ("sempiterna ejus virtus et divinitas" Bengel on Hebrews 1:8), which man, through sin, falls short of.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

all
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

have sinned
ἥμαρτον (hēmarton)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

fall short
ὑστεροῦνται (hysterountai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 5302: From husteros; to be later, i.e. to be inferior; generally, to fall short.

of the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

glory
δόξης (doxēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1391: From the base of dokeo; glory, in a wide application.

of God,
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


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