| Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good? | So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being. |
| Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. | Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. |
| Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. | Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. |
| But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. | But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing. |
| Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. | Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. |
| Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. |
| Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. | Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. |
| He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity. | He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly. |
| Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. | Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast love. |
| For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield. | For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover them with favor as with a shield. |
| Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. | Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. |
| Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. | From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. |
| The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. | The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. |
| He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. | Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. |
| “If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.” | If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. |
| Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. | Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. |
| What is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? | What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? |
| If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. | If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. |
| Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now. Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house. | Save us, we beseech you, O Lord! O Lord, we beseech you, give us success! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord. |
| I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. | I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring, because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
| Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. | How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. |
| Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. | Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. |
| Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. | And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. |
| Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. | And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. |
| Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.” | Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.” |
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