But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”(A)
his word is in my heart like a fire,(B)
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;(C)
    indeed, I cannot.

Read full chapter

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Read full chapter

    my heart grew hot(A) within me.
While I meditated,(B) the fire(C) burned;
    then I spoke with my tongue:

Read full chapter

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

Read full chapter

18 For I am full of words,
    and the spirit(A) within me compels me;(B)
19 inside I am like bottled-up wine,
    like new wineskins ready to burst.(C)
20 I must speak and find relief;
    I must open my lips and reply.(D)

Read full chapter

18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Read full chapter

20 As for us, we cannot help speaking(A) about what we have seen and heard.”(B)

Read full chapter

20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Read full chapter

14 The Spirit(A) then lifted me up(B) and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord(C) on me.

Read full chapter

14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Read full chapter

16 For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach.(A) Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward;(B) if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.(C)

Read full chapter

16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

Read full chapter

In Athens

16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.

Read full chapter

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

Read full chapter

13 If we are “out of our mind,”(A) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(B) 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves(C) but for him who died for them(D) and was raised again.

Read full chapter

13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

Read full chapter

11 But I am full of the wrath(A) of the Lord,
    and I cannot hold it in.(B)

“Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the young men(C) gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
    and the old, those weighed down with years.(D)

Read full chapter

11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Read full chapter

62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

Read full chapter

62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Read full chapter

He was with God in the beginning.(A) Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.(B)

Read full chapter

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Read full chapter

although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea(A) and went back once more to Galilee.

Read full chapter

(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

Read full chapter

When Silas(A) and Timothy(B) came from Macedonia,(C) Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.(D)

Read full chapter

And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

Read full chapter