| It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. | You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him. |
| And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. | The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
| He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. | Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. |
| For he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. | That he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. |
| But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside. | But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. |
| This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. | By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him. |
| This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. | By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. |
| 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. | Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband. The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. |
| The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. | Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. |
| Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. | Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. |
| Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. | Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. |
| But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. | Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness. |
| As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. | Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. |
| Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands. | Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. |
| But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ | But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ |
| The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. | His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. |
| There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. | There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. |
| No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. | Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good. |
| The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. | He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. |
| Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
| And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. | My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. |
| Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. | Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. |
| Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? | Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. | Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. |
| The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. | The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. |
Bible verse of the day
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”