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Genesis 18:25

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18:25 Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge 1  of the whole earth do what is right?” 2 

Acts 17:31

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17:31 because he has set 3  a day on which he is going to judge the world 4  in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, 5  having provided proof to everyone by raising 6  him from the dead.”

Romans 2:5

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2:5 But because of your stubbornness 7  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! 8 

Romans 3:5-6

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3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates 9  the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? 10  (I am speaking in human terms.) 11  3:6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

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[18:25]  1 tn Or “ruler.”

[18:25]  2 sn Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right? For discussion of this text see J. L. Crenshaw, “Popular Questioning of the Justice of God in Ancient Israel,” ZAW 82 (1970): 380-95, and C. S. Rodd, “Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Just?” ExpTim 83 (1972): 137-39.

[17:31]  3 tn Or “fixed.”

[17:31]  4 sn The world refers to the whole inhabited earth.

[17:31]  5 tn Or “appointed.” BDAG 723 s.v. ὁρίζω 2.b has “of persons appoint, designate, declare: God judges the world ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισεν through a man whom he has appointed Ac 17:31.”

[17:31]  6 tn The participle ἀναστήσας (anasthsa") indicates means here.

[2:5]  7 tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

[2:5]  8 tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

[3:5]  9 tn Or “shows clearly.”

[3:5]  10 tn Grk “That God is not unjust to inflict wrath, is he?”

[3:5]  11 sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.



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