So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?” | Therefore, we can say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?” |
So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. | Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outer self is continuing to decay, our inner self is being renewed day by day. |
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But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. | But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and your renown are the soul's desire. | As we proceed in the path of your judgments, we wait for you, O Lord; your name and your renown are all that our heart desires. |
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. | No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made complete in us. |
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. | And we are witnesses to these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him. |
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. | See what love the Father has bestowed on us, enabling us to be called the children of God, and that is what we are. If the world does not recognize us, that is because it did not know him. |
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. | For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so too do we believe that God will bring forth with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. |
Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. | Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace when we are in need of help. |
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. | This is the message that we have heard from him and that we declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him. |
The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also. | This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. | This is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. |
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. | However, if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all wrongdoing. |
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. | He made him who did not know sin to be sin for our sake, so that through him we might become the righteousness of God. |
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved. | There is no salvation in anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to men by which we can be saved. |
So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith. | Therefore, while we have the opportunity, let us labor for the good of all, but especially for those members of the household of the faith. |
In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. | By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation. |
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. | We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose. |
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. | And not only that, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we realize that suffering develops perseverance, and perseverance produces character, and character produces hope. |
Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have? | Can anyone withhold the water of baptism from these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have? |
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. | God’s love was revealed to us in this way: God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might have life through him. |
Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. | Although it was our afflictions that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, we thought of him as stricken, as struck down by God and afflicted. |
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. | In Christ and through his blood we have redemption and the forgiveness of our sins. In accord with the riches of his grace. |
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. | We have come to know and to believe in the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. |
The Almighty —we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate. | But the Almighty we cannot find; he is unequaled in power and judgment, and in his righteousness he will not violate justice. |