Tree Of Life Version

Romans 3:13-21 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

13. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.

14. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

15. Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16. Ruin and misery are in their paths,

17. and the way of shalom they have not known.

18. There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19. Now we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those within the Torah, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become accountable to God.

20. For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.

21. But now God’s righteousness apart from the Torah has been revealed, to which the Torah and the Prophets bear witness—