| Because you are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. | Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. |
| Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. | Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! |
| I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah | I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah |
| O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. | O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. |
| I, I am he who comforts you; why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die, a human being who fades like grass? | I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass. |
| Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. | Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. |
| For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. | For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. |
| O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. | O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. |
| Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. | Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. |
| I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. | And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. |
| Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah | I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah |
| I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. | I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. |
| I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous ordinances. | I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules. |
| I did not shrink from doing anything helpful, proclaiming the message to you and teaching you publicly and from house to house. | How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house. |
| Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. | Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. |
| Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. | Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. |
| I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. | I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. |
| Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. | Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! |
| O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. | O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. |
| Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.” | Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.” |
| I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter. | I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak. |
| So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. | So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. |
| Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. | You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
| I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. | I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. |
| I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. | I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. |
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