| Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. | Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. |
| You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. | You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. |
| For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. | For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. |
| I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man. | I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. |
| But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” | But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.” |
| You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. | You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more. |
| The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. | The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. |
| If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. | If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. |
| For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. | For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. |
| Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. |
| There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. | There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. |
| So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. | Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. |
| Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. | Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. |
| So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. | Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. |
| For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. | Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. |
| Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”. | Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them.” |
| For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ | ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ |
| I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. | I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. |
| Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. | He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. |
| Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. | He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. |
| For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? | For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? |
| All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. | Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. |
| Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. | Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. |
| Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. | Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. |
| Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. | Yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. |
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