| Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. | Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
| Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. | Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. |
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| Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. | Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. |
| An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies. | A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. |
| Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. | Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. |
| The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. | The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. |
| Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. | Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. |
| The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart; whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others. | He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend. |
| Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. | For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. |
| The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. | And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. |
| Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. | And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. |
| So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? | Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? |
| Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’? | Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? |
| Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. | Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. |
| The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. | The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. |
| For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. | For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. |
| God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? | God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? |
| The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. | Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. |
| He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. | The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. |
| Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. | Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. |
| He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. | He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? |
| Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. | It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. | I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. |
| For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. | For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. |
| Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” | And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” |
