In Römer 9:5 setzt die Neue-Welt-Übersetzung die Satzzeichen so, dass sich die Lobpreisung auf Gott und nicht auf Christus bezieht: “God, who is over all, be praised forever.” Dies ist unter Übersetzern wirklich umstritten: Die New American Bible, die Good News Translation und die Contemporary English Version setzen die Zeichen ebenso, die NIV, ESV, NASB und NRSV dagegen nicht.
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Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Die Studienanmerkung der Organisation stellt fest: “Grammatically, such a rendering is possible, but the context has to be taken into consideration”, und argumentiert aus dem Zusammenhang der Stelle sowie daraus, dass Paulus Lobpreisungen gewöhnlich Gott zuschreibt.
1985 · Romans 9:5 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“ἐξ out of ὧν whom ὁ the χριστὸς Christ τὸ the (thing) κατὰ according to σάρκα, flesh, ὁ the (one) ὢν being ἐπὶ upon πάντων, all (things), θεὸς God εὐλογητὸς blessed (one) εἰς into τοὺς the αἰῶνας· ages; ἀμήν. amen.”
The Greek runs on without a full stop. Whether ὁ ὤν ('the one being') continues the description of Christ or begins a new clause about God is a question of punctuation, which the earliest manuscripts do not settle.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, Romans 9:5 (word-for-word English under the Greek)
Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe.Interlinear text for Romans 9 opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026 and the Greek and gloss read directly.
19. September 2026 · Bible Hub (reproducing the named copyright translations)
“Christ as God: New International Version “the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised!”; English Standard Version “is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever”; New Revised Standard Version “comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever”. Separate doxology: New American Bible “is the Messiah. God who is over all be blessed forever.”; Good News Translation “May God, who rules over all, be praised forever!”; Contemporary English Version “I pray that God, who rules over all, will be praised forever!””
Romans 9:5 is genuinely disputed among translators quite independently of the New World Translation: the New American Bible, a Roman Catholic translation, punctuates it as the NWT does.
Notes.This quote field compiles renderings quoted separately from one Bible Hub parallel page; it is not a continuous passage. Each rendering was checked word for word against the page, which carries over forty versions.
Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung.src-nwtv-bh-rom-9-5
1985 · pp.1142-1143 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“These translations take ὁ ὤν (ho on) as the beginning of an independent sentence or clause referring to God and pronouncing a blessing upon him for the provisions he made.”
The appendix lists seven translations that punctuate Romans 9:5 as the New World Translation does, including the Revised Standard Version (1952), Moffatt (1935), Today's English Version (1966), the New American Bible (1970) and the New English Bible (1972). It quotes Winer's grammar and Ezra Abbot's 1888 study, which notes a point after σάρκα in codices A, B, C and L.
Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, Appendix 2D: “God, Who Is Over All”
Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe.Appendix opened in full on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; page markers 1142 and 1143 read from the page-number spans. I have not opened Winer or Abbot to check those quotations, nor the manuscripts to confirm the punctuation claim.
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