| He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” | But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it.” |
| 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. | 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. |
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| Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. | Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap. |
| 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. | He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. |
| 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 a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? |
| 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 take refuge in Him. |
| The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. | And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. |
| Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children. | Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. |
| 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 has sent.” |
| 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 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. |
| 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 on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. |
| 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. | By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. |
| 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. | 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. |
| You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. | You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. |
| Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. | Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, for the glory of God. |
| 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 is against us? |
| 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 the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. |
| 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, “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.’ ” |
| For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. | For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. |
| Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ | And heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ |
| 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 who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. |
