| For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. |
| God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. | God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. |
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| Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth! |
| I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. | I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. |
| Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. | Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. |
| I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? | Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? |
| So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. | So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request. |
| Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. | Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah. |
| He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” | But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.” |
| Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. | If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? |
| Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. | Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. |
| The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. | The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever. |
| Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. | Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. |
| You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. | You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
| God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. | For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. |
| Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? | Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? |
| Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. | Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. |
| 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. |
| Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children. | Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” | Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” |
| Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
| Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. | God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done. |
| 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. |
| How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. | Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. |
| You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. | You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder. |
