2 Timothy 2:15
Contemporary English Version
15 Do your best to win God's approval as a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed and who teaches only the true message.
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2 Timothy 2:15
New International Version
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.(A)
2 Timothy 2:15
King James Version
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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2 Corinthians 13:7
Contemporary English Version
7 We pray you will stop doing evil things. We don't pray like this to make ourselves look good, but to get you to do right, even if we are failures.
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2 Corinthians 13:7
New International Version
7 Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed.
2 Corinthians 13:7
King James Version
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
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James 1:12
Contemporary English Version
Trials and Temptations
12 (A) God will bless you, if you don't give up when your faith is being tested. He will reward you with a glorious life,[a] just as he rewards everyone who loves him.
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- 1.12 a glorious life: The Greek text has “the crown of life.” In ancient times an athlete who had won a contest was rewarded with a crown of flowers as a sign of victory.
James 1:12
New International Version
12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial(A) because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life(B) that the Lord has promised to those who love him.(C)
James 1:12
King James Version
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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1 Thessalonians 2:4
Contemporary English Version
4 God was pleased to trust us with his message. We didn't speak to please people, but to please God who knows our motives.
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1 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.(A) We are not trying to please people(B) but God, who tests our hearts.(C)
1 Thessalonians 2:4
King James Version
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
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2 Corinthians 10:18
Contemporary English Version
18 You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.
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2 Corinthians 10:18
New International Version
18 For it is not the one who commends himself(A) who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.(B)
2 Corinthians 10:18
King James Version
18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
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