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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus": sounds like a promise that believers will never be criticized or disapproved of
"Condemnation" in the KJV is courtroom language: a legal guilty verdict and sentence, not moral disapproval or criticism.
Romans 8:1, in every translation this tool compares.
Romans 8:1 says "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." The underlying Greek word means a judicial sentence or penalty. Paul isn't promising believers will never be disapproved of or made to feel bad; he's saying they will never face the legal verdict of "guilty" before God's tribunal.
The same courtroom sense runs through John 3:17, where God did not send his Son "to condemn the world," meaning to pass judicial sentence on it, but to save it. Modern English has flattened "condemn" into a word for expressing strong disapproval ("I condemn that behavior"), which loses the specifically legal, sentence-passing weight it carried for the KJV translators.
