For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. | For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. |
For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are in accord with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. | For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. |
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But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God. | But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God. |
One who turns his ear away from listening to the Law, Even his prayer is an abomination. | He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. |
I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart. | I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart. |
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. | I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. |
But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may go well for you.’ | But this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ |
So the Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our own good always and for our survival, as it is today. | Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today. |