That the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
NIV
That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God's children.
AMP
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
KJV
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
NIV
To the weak (wanting in discernment) I have become weak (wanting in discernment) that I might win the weak and overscrupulous. I have [in short] become all things to all men, that I might by all means (at all costs and in any and every way) save some [by winning them to faith in Jesus Christ].
AMP
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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
But select capable men from all the people – men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
NIV
Moreover, you shall choose able men from all the people--God-fearing men of truth who hate unjust gain--and place them over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, to be their rulers.
AMP
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
KJV
Those who love money never have enough; those who love wealth are never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
NIV
He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with gain. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!
AMP
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
KJV
Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.
NIV
[Some] women received again their dead by a resurrection. Others were tortured to death with clubs, refusing to accept release [offered on the terms of denying their faith], so that they might be resurrected to a better life. [I Kings 17:17-24; II Kings 4:25-37.]AMP
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
KJV
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
NIV
What do I gain if, merely from the human point of view, I fought with [wild] beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised [at all], let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will be dead. [Isa. 22:13.]AMP
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
KJV
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
NIV
Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.
AMP
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
KJV
