| Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf. | For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. |
| So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request. | So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. |
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| Seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue. | According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. |
| By which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. | Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. |
| May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. | Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. |
| The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor. | The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. |
| If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. | If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. |
| But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name. | But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. |
| Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. | Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
| For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. | For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. |
