Nehemiah 6:3
New Living Translation
3 so I replied by sending this message to them: “I am engaged in a great work, so I can’t come. Why should I stop working to come and meet with you?”
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Nehemiah 6:3
New International Version
3 so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”
Nehemiah 6:3
King James Version
3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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1 Timothy 4:15-16
New Living Translation
15 Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.
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1 Timothy 4:15-16
New International Version
15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save(A) both yourself and your hearers.
1 Timothy 4:15-16
King James Version
15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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John 9:4
New Living Translation
4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.[a] The night is coming, and then no one can work.
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- 9:4 Other manuscripts read I must quickly carry out the tasks assigned me by the one who sent me; still others read We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me.
John 9:4
New International Version
4 As long as it is day,(A) we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
John 9:4
King James Version
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
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Matthew 10:16
New Living Translation
16 “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
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Matthew 10:16
New International Version
16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.(A) Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.(B)
Matthew 10:16
King James Version
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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Luke 14:30
New Living Translation
30 They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’
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Luke 14:30
New International Version
30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
Luke 14:30
King James Version
30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
New Living Translation
10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[a] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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- 9:10 Hebrew to Sheol.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
New International Version
10 Whatever(A) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(B) for in the realm of the dead,(C) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(D)
Ecclesiastes 9:10
King James Version
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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Proverbs 14:15
New Living Translation
15 Only simpletons believe everything they’re told!
The prudent carefully consider their steps.
Proverbs 14:15
New International Version
15 The simple believe anything,
but the prudent give thought to their steps.(A)
Proverbs 14:15
King James Version
15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
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