KJV
3. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.



KJV
3. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

AMP
3. For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes [which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought, and deed] and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness.

KJVP
3. For G1063 CONJ they G3588 T-GSM being ignorant G50 V-PAP-NPM of God G2316 N-GSM \'s righteousness G1343 N-ASF , and G2532 CONJ going about G2212 V-PAP-NPM to establish G2476 V-AAN their own G2398 A-ASF righteousness G1343 N-ASF , have not G3756 PRT-N submitted themselves G5293 V-2API-3P unto the G3588 T-DSF righteousness G1343 N-DSF of God G2316 N-GSM .

YLT
3. for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

ASV
3. For being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

WEB
3. For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

NASB
3. For, in their unawareness of the righteousness that comes from God and their attempt to establish their own (righteousness), they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

ESV
3. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

RV
3. For being ignorant of God-s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

RSV
3. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

NKJV
3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

MKJV
3. For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

AKJV
3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

NRSV
3. For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God's righteousness.

NIV
3. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

NIRV
3. They didn't know how God makes people right with himself. They tried to get right with God in their own way. They didn't do it in God's way.

NLT
3. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God's way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

MSG
3. They don't seem to realize that this comprehensive setting-things-right that is salvation is God's business, and a most flourishing business it is. Right across the street they set up their own salvation shops and noisily hawk their wares. After all these years of refusing to really deal with God on his terms, insisting instead on making their own deals, they have nothing to show for it.

GNB
3. They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

NET
3. For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

ERVEN
3. They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God's way of making people right.