Romans 5:7 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
For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Now someone might barely be willing to die for the sake of justice, for example, perhaps someone might dare to die for the sake of a good man.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.
LSV Literal Standard Version
for scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, for the good man perhaps someone also dares to die;
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
For scarcely for [the] just [man] will one die, for perhaps for [the] good [man] some one might also dare to die;
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Doutles one will scarce die for a righteous man: but yet for a good man it may be that one dare die.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. That is, perhaps someone would dare to die for a good person.
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)
Yet scace will eny man dye for a rightewes man. Paraventure for a good man durst a man dye.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;
FBV Free Bible Version
Who would die for anybody else, even someone who does what's right? (Though perhaps somebody would be brave enough to die for someone really good.)
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
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Porque apenas hay quien muera por un justo, aunque alguno se atreva á morir por un bienhechor.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Ciertamente apenas muere alguno por un justo: con todo podrá ser que alguno osara morir por el bueno.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Es muy difícil que alguien dé su vida por una persona justa y buena, aunque, en efecto, pudiera darse un caso así.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Con dificultad alguien muere por un justo. Tal vez alguno tenga el valor de morir por el bueno.
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)
¿Quién moriría por otra persona, incluso si se tratara de alguien que hace lo recto? (Aunque quizás alguno sería suficientemente valiente para morir por alguien que es realmente bueno).
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)
Casi nadie muere por una persona justa; aunque tal vez alguien se atreva a morir por una persona buena.
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)
μόλις γὰρ ὑπὲρ δικαίου τις ἀποθανεῖται· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τάχα τις καὶ τολμᾷ ἀποθανεῖν.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
μολις γαρ υπερ δικαιου τις αποθανειται· υπερ γαρ του αγαθου ταχα τις και τολμα αποθανειν.
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)
Μόλις γὰρ ὑπὲρ δικαίου τις ἀποθανεῖται· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τάχα τις καὶ τολμᾷ ἀποθανεῖν.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
μολισ γαρ υπερ δικαιου τισ αποθανειται υπερ γαρ του αγαθου ταχα τισ και τολμα αποθανειν
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
μόλις γὰρ ὑπὲρ δικαίου τις ἀποθανεῖται· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τάχα τις καὶ τολμᾷ ἀποθανεῖν·
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
μόλις γὰρ ὑπὲρ δικαίου τις ἀποθανεῖται· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τάχα τις καὶ τολμᾷ ἀποθανεῖν·
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
vix enim pro justo quis moritur: nam pro bono forsitan quis audeat mori.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Є҆два́ бо за првⷣника кто̀ ᲂу҆́мретъ: за бл҃га́го бо не́гли кто̀ и҆ де́рзнетъ ᲂу҆мре́ти.
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)
Ибо едва ли кто умрет за праведника; разве за благодетеля, может быть, кто и решится умереть.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι μόλις υπέρ δικαίου θέλει αποθάνει τις· επειδή υπέρ του αγαθού ίσως και τολμά τις να αποθάνη·
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер једва ко умре за праведника; за доброга може бити да би се ко усудио умрети.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer jedva ko umre za pravednika; za dobroga može biti da bi se ko usudio umreti.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
فَإِنَّهُ بِٱلْجَهْدِ يَمُوتُ أَحَدٌ لِأَجْلِ بَارٍّ. رُبَّمَا لِأَجْلِ ٱلصَّالِحِ يَجْسُرُ أَحَدٌ أَيْضًا أَنْ يَمُوتَ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC