| Moreover, the one to whom God grants wealth and possessions and the ability to enjoy them and to find contentment in his toil receives a gift from 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. |
| Adulterers! Do you not know that love of the world results in enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a lover 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. |
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| Jesus replied, “Blessed, rather, are those who hear the word of God and obey it!” | He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” |
| Therefore, we fasted and prayed to God to grant us a safe journey, and he answered our prayer. | So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. |
| I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything impossible for me to accomplish? | I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? |
| Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. A person will reap only what he sows. | Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. |
| Blessed be the Lord, day after day, the God of our salvation, who carries our burden. Selah | Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. |
| The grass may wither and the flower may fade, but the word of our God will endure forever. | The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. |
| Every word of God has proved to be true; he is a shield to those who trust in him. | Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. |
| Jesus replied, “This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent.” | Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” |
| When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for God has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill the vow you have made. | When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. |
| Therefore, accept one another for the glory of God, just as Christ has accepted you. | Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. |
| Sing to God, sing praise to his name; exalt him who rides upon the clouds. Rejoice in the presence of this God whose name is the Lord. The Father of orphans and the defender of widows: such is God in his holy dwelling place. | Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. |
| What then can we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? | What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
| And this is the testimony: God gave 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. |
| The Lord God made clothing for the man and woman out of animal skins and he clothed them. | The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. |
| Cure the sick who are there, and say, ‘The kingdom of God has come unto you.’ | Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ |
| Indeed, creation itself eagerly awaits the revelation of the children of God. | For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. |
| Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all consolation. He consoles us in all our afflictions and thereby enables us to console others in their tribulations, offering them the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled 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. |
| 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. |
| God blessed the seventh day and he consecrated it, for on it he rested from all the work he had done when he created all things. | 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. |
| Jesus then said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to 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.’” |
| Who indeed conquers the world except 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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 trust in the name of the Lord our God. |
