| He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. | The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he. |
| Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. | Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. |
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| Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. | Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us. |
| If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. |
| There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called. | There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling. |
| Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. | Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God. |
| Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. | Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. |
| If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain 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. |
| Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. | Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. |
| May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does 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. |
| Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. | Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. |
| To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. | To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. |
| A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. | A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. |
| Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. | And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. |
| For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” | For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.” |
| The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. | The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them. |
| Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.” | But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.” |
| A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. | For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. |
| Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. | For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. |
| As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. | As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. |
| I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. | I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. |
| Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through 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. |
| Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. | Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. |
| For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. | For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. |
| But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” | But just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior, because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” |
