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Romans 3:17

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And the way of peace have they not known:
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  1. Isaiah 59:8Rank 1 from verse 17
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    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  2. Romans 5:1Rank 2 from verse 17
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    1THEREFORE being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

  3. Luke 1:79Rank 3 from verse 17
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    79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

  4. Matthew 7:14Rank 4 from verse 17
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    14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

  5. Isaiah 57:21Rank 5 from verse 17
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    21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

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Romans 3:17

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peace

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Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being.

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3:9What 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;

3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

3:16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

3:17And the way of peace have they not known:

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3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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