10 When Timothy(A) comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is carrying on the work of the Lord,(B) just as I am.

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10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

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14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(A) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(B)

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14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(A)

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16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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Moral Benefits of Wisdom

My son,(A) if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,

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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Of Jerusalem I thought,
    ‘Surely you will fear me
    and accept correction!’(A)
Then her place of refuge[a] would not be destroyed,
    nor all my punishments come upon[b] her.
But they were still eager
    to act corruptly(B) in all they did.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Or her sanctuary
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Or all those I appointed over

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

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53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,(A) just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

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53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

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