| Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? | Do not associate with unbelievers. For what basis can there be for a partnership between righteousness and lawlessness? What do light and darkness have in common? |
| The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? | With the Lord to protect me I am not afraid. What can mortals do to me? |
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| What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? | What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his very life? |
| What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar. | A man’s attraction is his kindness; it is far better to be poor than to be a liar. |
| The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” | “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and every other commandment are all summed up in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
| Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. | Be doers of the word and not just hearers who only deceive themselves. |
| Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many. | Listen, my son, and take my words to heart, and the years of your life will be multiplied. |
| Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. | Then you will understand equity and justice as well as righteousness—every good path. |
| He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. | One who finds a wife finds happiness and receives favor from the Lord. |
| To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. | To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. |
| Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. | Therefore, keep watch, for you do not know the day when your Lord is coming. |
| What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? | What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? |
| But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. | Test everything, and hold fast to what is good. Avoid every form of evil. |
| But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. | However, the one who looks intently at the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard but putting it into practice—will be blessed in everything he does. |
| 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? | Therefore, heed my words. Do not be concerned about your life and what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body and what you will wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. |
| I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. | I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you already have so that no one may rob you of your crown. |
| What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! | What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Of course not! |
| See what great love the Father has lavished on 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. |
| Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. | Those who live according to the flesh fix their attention on the things of the flesh, while those who live according to the Spirit set their thoughts on spiritual things. |
| Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. | Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples. |
| Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. | Be on your guard that you do not lose what we have worked to accomplish so that you will receive your reward in full. |
| Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. | Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not demand the return of what is yours from the one who has taken it. |
| In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? | In God, whose word I praise, in God I place my trust and know no fear; what can people do to me? |
| What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? | What then can we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
| He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. | He reveals deep and hidden mysteries and knows what lies in the darkness, for light dwells with him. |
