| For this reason You are great, Lord God; for there is no one like You, and there is no God except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. | 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. |
| Be exalted above the heavens, God, And may Your glory be above all the earth. | Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. |
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| Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me? | I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? |
| The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. | The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. |
| So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our pleading. | So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. |
| You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. | 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. |
| If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. | Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. |
| Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. | Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. |
| Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah | Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. |
| But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it.” | He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” |
| What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? | What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
| And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. | The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. |
| You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. | You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. |
| Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, for the glory of God. | Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. |
| Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap. | Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. |
| Furthermore, as for every person to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also given him the opportunity to enjoy them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. | Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of 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 affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. | 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. |
| When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their evil way, then God relented of the disaster which He had declared He would bring on them. So He did not do it. | When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. |
| But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. | But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’ ” | 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.’” |
| And the testimony is this, that God has given 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. |
| Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” | Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” |
| For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. | For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. |
| And heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ | Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ |
| Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? | Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. |
