| But godliness with contentment is great gain. | But godliness with contentment is great gain. |
| For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. |
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| For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? | For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
| Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! | Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. |
| So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
| If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. | And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. |
| 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 is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
| He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. | He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. |
| One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. | A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. |
| Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding. | Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. |
| Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. | Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. |
| Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. | Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. |
| Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. | Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. |
| Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward. | The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. |
| If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. | Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. |
| When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? | When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? |
| Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. |
| For not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. | For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
| For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. | For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. |
| I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. | And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
