Matthew 5:21

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1395 Ye han herd that it was seid to elde men, Thou schalt not slee; and he that sleeth, schal be gilti to doom. (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1534 Ye have herde howe it was sayd vnto the of ye olde tyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whoso ever kylleth shall be in daunger of iudgemet. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
1535 Ye haue herde, how it was sayde to the of the olde tyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whosoeuer kylleth, shall be in daunger of iudgement. (Coverdale Bible)
1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1540 Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of þe olde tyme. Thou shalt no kyll: whosoeuer killeth, shalbe in daunger of iudgement. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1549 Ye haue heard howe it was said vnto them of þe olde time: Thou shalt not kil. For whosoeuer killeth, shal be in daunger of iudgement, (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
1560
1568 Ye haue hearde, that it was sayde to them of the olde tyme, thou shalt not kyll: who so euer kylleth, shalbe in daunger of iudgement. (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
1572 (Bishop's Bible)
1582 (Rheims 1582)
1587 Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of the olde time, Thou shalt not kill: for whosoeuer killeth shalbe culpable of iudgement. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1611 Yee haue heard, that it was saide by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill: and, Whosoeuer shall kill, shalbe in danger of the iudgement. (King James Version)
1729 Ye have heard that it has been said to the antients, "Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be punish'd by the tribunal." (Mace New Testament)
1745 Ye have heard, that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill, shall be lyable to the judgment. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
1762 (King James Version)
1769 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
1770 Ye have heard, that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever committeth murder, shall be liable to the judgment: (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
1790 Ye have heard, that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt do no murder; and whosoever shall do murder shall be liable to the judgment: (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
1795 Ye have heard that it was said to the men of antient times, "Thou shalt do no murder;" and whosoever shall commit murder, shall be liable to the judgment: (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
1833 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment: (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
1835 You have heard that it was said to the ancients, "You shall not commit murder; for whosoever commits murder shall be obnoxious to the judges." (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
1849 YOU have heard that it was said unto them who were before, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill is obnoxious to the judgment. (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)
1850 (King James Version by Committee)
1851 Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and every one that killeth, is obnoxious to judgment. (Murdock Translation)
1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society
1858 You have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be subject to the judgment.

(The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)

1865 You have heard, that it was said to the ancients: Not thou kill; who ever shall kill, liable shall be to the tribunal.

(The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)

1865 Ye heard that it was said to those of old: Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
1869 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, "Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the Judges." (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
1873 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
1885 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
1890 Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment. (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
1898 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

(Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)

1901 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
1902 Ye have heard, that it was said, to them of olden time,––Thou shalt not commit murder, and, whosoever shall commit murder, shall be, liable, to judgment. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
1902 You have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not murder; and whosoever may murder shall be in danger of the judgment; (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
1904 "Ye heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not kill; and whosoever kills shall be in danger of the judgment.' (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
1904 You have heard that to our ancestors it was said—'Thou shalt not commit murder,' and 'Whoever commits murder shall be liable to answer for it to the Court.' (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
1911 (Syrus Scofield)
1912 "You have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT MURDER', and whoever commits murder will be answerable to the magistrate. (Weymouth New Testament)
1918 You have heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill shall be liable to the judgment. (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
1982 (New King James Version) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
1984 (New International Version)(NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
1999 (American King James Version)AKJV
2000 (King James 2000 Bible©)
2005 (Today’s New International Version)
(BBE)
2009 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)(HCSB) Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
(21st Century King James Version) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
(Common English Bible) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
(GOD’S WORD Translation)(GW) Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
(Contemporary English Version)(CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
(New Living Translation)(NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation.
(Amplified Bible) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
(The Message) (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
(New International Reader's Version) (NIRV) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.®.
(Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

Afrikaans

1933 (Ta Biblia Ta Logia - J. D. du Toit, E. E. van Rooyen, J. D. Kestell, H. C. M. Fourie, and BB Keet
1953
1982 Paraphrase - Die Lewende Bybel, Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy (CUM)
1982 South African Bible Society - E. P. Groenewald, A. H. van Zyl, P. A. Verhoef, J. L. Helberg, and W. Kempen
1983 © Bybelgenootskap van Suid Afrika
2001 The Nuwe Wêreld-vertaling van die Heilige Skrif is an Afrikaans translation of the 1984 English translation of the Bible by the Watchtower Society.
2002 Die Boodskap
2002 DieBybel@Kinders.co.za - Gert Prinsloo, Phil Botha, Willem Boshoff, Hennie Stander, Dirk Human, Stephan Joubert, and Jan van der Watt.
2006 The Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (literally "New Living Translation")
2008 Bybel vir Almal - South African Bible Society, Bart Oberholzer, Bernard Combrink, Hermie van Zyl, Francois Tolmie, Christo van der Merwe, Rocco Hough en Elmine Roux.
2014 Direct Translation, South African Bible Society
2014 Afrikaans Standard Version, CUM Books

Akan

Albabian

Amuzgo de Guerrero

1973 Amuzgo de Guerrero (AMU) Copyright © 1973, 1999 by La Liga Biblica
1999

Armenian

Arabic

1516
1591
1616
1622
1671 Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by Abraham Ecchellensis and Louis Maracci
قد سمعتم انه قيل للقدماء لا تقتل. ومن قتل يكون مستوجب الحكم. (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)
1988 Arabic Life Application Bible (ALAB) Copyright © 1988 by Biblica
2009 Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) Copyright © 2009 by World Bible Translation Center

Aramaic/Syriac

ܫܡܥܬܘܢ ܕܐܬܐܡܪ ܠܩܕܡܝܐ ܠܐ ܬܩܛܘܠ ܘܟܠ ܕܢܩܛܘܠ ܡܚܝܒ ܗܘ ܠܕܝܢܐ (Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

1571 Ençun vkan duçue nola erraniçan içan çayen lehenagocoey, Eztuc hilen: eta norc-ere hilen baitu, hura iudicioz punitu içateco digne date.

Bulgarian

1940 Чули сте, че е било казано на старовременните: "Не убивай; и който убие излага се на съд". (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
Чули сте, че е било казано на старовременните: "Не убивай; и който убие излага се на съд". (Матей 5:21) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
5:21 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

1613

Danish

Dutch

1619

Esperanto

Finnish

French

Vous avez ouï qu'il a été dit aux anciens: "Tu ne tueras pas; et quiconque tuera, sera passible du jugement". (French Darby)
1744 Vous avez entendu qu'il a été dit aux Anciens : Tu ne tueras point; et qui tuera, sera punissable par le jugement. (Martin 1744)
1744 Vous avez entendu qu'il a été dit aux anciens: Tu ne tueras point; et celui qui tuera sera punissable par les juges.(Ostervald 1744)
1864 (Augustin Crampon)
1910
2006 (King James Française)

German

1545 Ihr habt gehöret, daß zu den Alten gesagt ist: Du sollst nicht töten; wer aber tötet, der soll des Gerichts schuldig sein. (Luther 1545)
1871 Ihr habt gehört, daß zu den Alten gesagt ist: Du sollst nicht töten; wer aber irgend töten wird, wird dem Gericht verfallen sein. (Elberfelder 1871)
1912 Ihr habt gehört, daß zu den Alten gesagt ist: "Du sollst nicht töten; wer aber tötet, der soll des Gerichts schuldig sein." (Luther 1912)

Greek

1904 (Greek Orthodox (B. Antoniades))
Modern Greek (Trinitarian Bible Society)

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

1649 Voi avete udito che fu detto agli antichi: Non uccidere; e: Chiunque ucciderà sarà sottoposto al giudizio. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
1927 Voi avete udito che fu detto agli antichi: Non uccidere, e Chiunque avrà ucciso sarà sottoposto al tribunale; (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

1928

Latin

audistis quia dictum est antiquis non occides qui autem occiderit reus erit iudicio Latin Vulgate
1527 (Erasmus 1527)
1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)
1565 (Beza)
1598 (Beza)

Latvian

Maori

1833
1837
1858
1868 (Formal translation based on the Greek 'Received Text': Trinitarian Bible Society)
1833
1952

Norwegian

1930

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Portugese

Potawatomi

1833 (Potawatomi Matthew and Acts)

Romainian

1551 (Slavic-Romanian Gospel)
1561 (Coresi's Gospel)
1570 (The Braşov Psalm Book) Psalms Only
1582 (Palia from Orăştie)
1648 (The New Testament of Alba Iulia)
1688 (Biblia de la Bucureşti - Bucharest Bible)
1911 (Nitzulescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1921 (Cornilescu)
1924 (Cornilescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1989 (Gute Botschaft Verlag)
2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna - Textus Receptus Based)
2013 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Cornilescu 90th anniversary definitive edition - British and Foreign Bible Society)

Russian

1876 Вы слышали, что сказано древним: не убивай, кто же убьет, подлежит суду. Russian Synodal Version
Phonetically:

Sanskrit

1851

Shur

Spanish

See Also Bible translations (Spanish)

1543 (Francisco de Enzinas New Testament)
1556 (Juan Perez de Pineda New Testament and book of Psalms)
1569 (Sagradas Escrituras)
1814 Valera Revision
1817 Valera Revision
1831 Valera Revision
1858 Reina Valera
1862 Valera Revision
1865 Valera Revision (American Bible Society Revisión)
1869 Valera Revision
1909 (Reina-Valera) Antigua Spanish Bible
1960 Versión Reina-Valera (Eugene Nida )
1987 Translation from English. Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
1994 Nuevo Testamento versión Recobro
1999 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
2002 (1602 Purificada)
2009 Santa Biblia: Reina-Valera
1 (Reina Valera Gómez)

Swahili

Mmekwisha sikia ya kuwa watu wa kale waliambiwa: Usiue! Atakayeua lazima ahukumiwe.

Swedish

1917 I haven hört att det är sagt till de gamle: 'Du skall icke dräpa; och den som dräper, han är hemfallen åt Domstolens dom.' (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 Narinig ninyo na sinabi sa mga tao sa una, Huwag kang papatay; at ang sinomang pumatay ay mapapasa panganib sa kahatulan: (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Thai

(Thai KJV)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

1878 (Hindustani Roman Script)
1938 (Urdu Revised Version. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1938)
2016 (Urdu Bible)

Vietnamese

1934 Các ngươi có nghe lời phán cho người xưa rằng: Ngươi chớ giết ai; và rằng: Hễ ai giết người thì đáng bị tòa án xử đoán. (Ma-thi-ô 5:21 Vietnamese Bible) (VIET)

Welsh

1567 (William Salesbury, printed in 1567 by Humphrey Toy)
1588 (William Morgan)
1620 (William Morgan)
1824
1988 (New Welsh Bible)
2004
2011 (beibl.net 2011 by Arfon Jones)

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