Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" He said to them
NIV
And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them
AMP
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
KJV
Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.
NIV
Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess; and he sent for Paul and listened to him [talk] about faith in Christ Jesus.
AMP
And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
KJV
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
NIV
And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is in vain [it amounts to nothing] and your faith is devoid of truth and is fruitless (without effect, empty, imaginary, and unfounded).
AMP
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
KJV
But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation –
NIV
Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.
AMP
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
KJV
As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine.
NIV
As the truth of Christ is in me, this my boast [of independence] shall not be debarred (silenced or checked) in the regions of Achaia (most of Greece).
AMP
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
KJV
Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
NIV
Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no profit (advantage, avail) to you [for if you distrust Him, you can gain nothing from Him].
AMP
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
KJV
For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.
NIV
For He [the Father] has put all things in subjection under His [Christ's] feet. But when it says, All things are put in subjection [under Him], it is evident that He [Himself] is excepted Who does the subjecting of all things to Him. [Ps. 8:6.]AMP
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
KJV
Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.
NIV
Are they [ministering] servants of Christ (the Messiah)? I am talking like one beside himself, [but] I am more, with far more extensive and abundant labors, with far more imprisonments, [beaten] with countless stripes, and frequently [at the point of] death.
AMP
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
KJV
