| Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! | Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. |
| Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase. | Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops. |
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| The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. | And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
| He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. | Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. |
| He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. | Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. |
| For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it. | For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. |
| For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. | For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. |
| For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. | For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. |
| One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. | Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. |
| For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. | For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord. |
| Don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. | Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. |
| The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life. | Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life. |
| You being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. | You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. |
| 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. |
| Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit. | The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. |
| 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. |
| He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor. | Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. |
| If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. | If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. |
| Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. | Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. |
| For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. | The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. |
| Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. | Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. | The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. |
| Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? | Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? |
| For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. | For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
