| For everything there is a season, and a time for every activity under heaven. | For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. |
| Where can I go to hide from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I take my rest in the netherworld, you are also there. | 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. |
| For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in their midst. | For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them. |
| Now an intermediary is not necessary when there is only one party, and God is one. | Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one. |
| Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from anything that can defile flesh or spirit, and thereby make our holiness perfect in the fear of God. | Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God. |
| Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. | Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. |
| For all have sinned and thereby are deprived of the glory of God, and all are justified by the gift of his grace that is given freely through the redemption in Christ Jesus. | Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. |
| Plans miscarry when counsel is lacking, but they succeed when there are many counselors. | Without counsel, plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed. |
| For this day in the city of David there has been born to you a Savior who is Christ, the Lord. | To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. |
| Whom do I have in heaven except you? And besides you there is nothing else I desire on earth. | Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you. |
| There is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing secret that will not become known. | Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. |
| But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. | But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| Through him all things came into existence, and without him there was nothing. That which came to be. | All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being. |
| In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents. | Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. |
| While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. | While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. |
| You believe that there is one God. You do well to assert that. But even the demons believe and tremble. | You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. |
| Thus there are three things that endure: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. | And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. |
| There is one body and one Spirit, as well as one hope to which you have been called by your vocation. | There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling. |
| The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. | The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. |
| Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you then will truly be free. | So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. |
| But if you seek the Lord, your God, and you strive with all your heart and your soul, you will find him there. | From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul. |
| By these he has given us his precious promises, great beyond all price, so that through them you may escape from the corruption with which evil desires have infected the world and thereby may come to share in the divine nature. | Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. |
| Indeed, under the Law almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. | Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. |
| Repent, therefore, and be converted so that your sins may be wiped away. | Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. |
| Then, after he had spoken to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven, and there he took his place at the right hand of God. | So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. |
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