| 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. | Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
| 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. |
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| Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” | Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” |
| Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. | Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. |
| The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. | Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. |
| 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 tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
| Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. | Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. |
| 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, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor 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 there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! |
| What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? | What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
| Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children. | Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. |
| But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. | But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. | And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. |
| 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. | Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. |
| Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” | Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ” |
| For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. | For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. |
| 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. | In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. |
| Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ | And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ |
| Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? | Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? |
| Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. | Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? |
| So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. | Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. |
| For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. | For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. |
| I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God. | I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. |
| Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. | Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. |
| Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. | And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. |
