For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. | For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. |
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. | A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes. |
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad. | Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. |
Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God. | But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God. |
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. | The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale. |
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips. | Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are consumed by their own lips. |
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. | Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. |
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. | And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. |
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.” | Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” |
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless. | Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. |
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. | Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. |
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. | Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. |
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. | He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. |
For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. | For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. |
But many will be last who are first, and first who are last. | But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. |
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. | 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. |
For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. | All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. |
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. | But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! |
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. | For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. |
For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. | For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. |
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many. | Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many. |
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent. | Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. |
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. | What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar. |
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. | The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all. |
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