Romans 5:21 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
That as sin hath reigned to death; so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
So then, just as sin has reigned unto death, so also may grace reign through justice unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
LSV Literal Standard Version
that even as sin reigned in death, so also grace may reign, through righteousness, to continuous life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of] death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
This happened so that, as sin ruled in death, even so grace might rule through righteousness for everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
That as synne had raigned vnto deeth even so might grace raygne thorow rightewesnes vnto eternall lyfe by the helpe of Iesu Christ.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
FBV Free Bible Version
Just as sin ruled us and brought us death, now grace rules by making us right with God, bringing us eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Para que como reynó el pecado para muerte; así también reyne la gracia por justicia para vida eterna por Jesu-Christo nuestro Señor.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Para que, de la manera que el pecado reinó para muerte, así también la gracia reine por la justicia para vida eterna por Jesucristo Señor nuestro.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
De la misma manera como el pecado se enseñoreó de la humanidad y la condujo a la muerte, así también la gracia de Dios reina, nos hace justos y nos da vida eterna a través de Jesucristo nuestro Señor.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
a fin de que como el pecado reinó para muerte, así también la gracia reine por medio de [la] justicia para vida eterna por medio de Jesucristo nuestro Señor.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Así como el pecado gobernó sobre nosotros y nos llevó a la muerte, ahora la gracia es la que gobierna al justificarnos delante de Dios, trayéndonos vida eterna por medio de Jesucristo, nuestro Señor.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Así como el pecado reinó para muerte, así también la gracia reine por medio de la justicia para vida eterna, por Jesucristo nuestro Señor.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
ἵνα ὥσπερ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ, οὕτω καὶ ἡ χάρις βασιλεύσῃ διὰ δικαιοσύνης εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
ινα ωσπερ εβασιλευσεν η αμαρτια εν τω θανατω, ουτως και η χαρις βασιλευση δια δικαιοσυνης εις ζωην αιωνιον δια ιησου χριστου του κυριου ημων.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
ἵνα ὥσπερ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ, οὕτω καὶ ἡ χάρις βασιλεύσῃ διὰ δικαιοσύνης εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
ινα ωσπερ εβασιλευσεν η αμαρτια εν τω θανατω ουτωσ και η χαρισ βασιλευση δια δικαιοσυνησ εισ ζωην αιωνιον δια ιησου χριστου του κυριου ημων
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
ἵνα ὥσπερ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ, οὕτως καὶ ἡ χάρις βασιλεύσῃ διὰ δικαιοσύνης εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
ἵνα ὥσπερ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ, οὕτως καὶ ἡ χάρις βασιλεύσῃ διὰ δικαιοσύνης εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
ut sicut regnavit peccatum in mortem: ita et gratia regnet per justitiam in vitam æternam, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
да ꙗ҆́коже ца́рствова грѣ́хъ во сме́рть, та́кожде и҆ блгⷣть воцр҃и́тсѧ пра́вдою въ жи́знь вѣ́чнꙋю, і҆и҃съ хрⷭ҇то́мъ гдⷭ҇емъ на́шимъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
дабы, как грех царствовал к смерти, так и благодать воцарилась через праведность к жизни вечной Иисусом Христом, Господом нашим.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
ίνα καθώς εβασίλευσεν η αμαρτία διά του θανάτου, ούτω και η χάρις βασιλεύση διά της δικαιοσύνης εις ζωήν αιώνιον διά Ιησού Χριστού του Κυρίου ημών.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
да као што царова грех за смрт, тако и благодат да царује правдом за живот вечни, кроз Исуса Христа Господа нашег.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
da kao što carova greh za smrt, tako i blagodat da caruje pravdom za život večni, kroz Isusa Hrista Gospoda našeg.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
حَتَّى كَمَا مَلَكَتِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةُ فِي ٱلْمَوْتِ، هَكَذَا تَمْلِكُ ٱلنِّعْمَةُ بِٱلْبِرِّ، لِلْحَيَاةِ ٱلْأَبَدِيَّةِ، بِيَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ رَبِّنَا.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC