| Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done. | Who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting. |
| If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. | If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. |
| Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband. | Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. |
| And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. | May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you. |
| For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps. | For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps. |
| He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two stone tablets. | He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. |
| For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. |
| This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. |
| We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law. | We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners, yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. |
| The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. | The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. |
| And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit. | But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. |
| For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God. | For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God. |
| And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning. | As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. |
| Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything. | As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all. |
| My child, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves the one he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. | My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. |
| Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. | Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. |
| Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. |
| God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. | God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, that no flesh should boast before God. |
| Wealth is a ransom for a person's life, but the poor get no threats. | The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. |
| Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a ruler. | Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince. |
| Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist. | Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. |
| He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. | He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. |
| My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. | My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. |
| To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is! | Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time! |
| But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!” | But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.” |
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