They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants."
NIV
And they answered him, If you are kind to [these] people and please them and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.
AMP
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
KJV
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
NIV
Since all these things are thus in the process of being dissolved, what kind of person ought [each of] you to be [in the meanwhile] in consecrated and holy behavior and devout and godly qualities
AMP
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
KJV
Or if they touch human uncleanness – anything that would make them unclean – even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt
NIV
Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever kind the uncleanness may be with which he becomes defiled, and he is unaware of it, when he does know it, then he shall be guilty.
AMP
Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
KJV
Those who are kind to the poor lend to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.
NIV
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov. 28:27; Eccl. 11:1; Matt. 10:42; 25:40; II Cor. 9:6-8; Heb. 6:10.]AMP
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
KJV
They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
NIV
They are all the worst [kind] of rebels and utter and total revolters against God, going about publishing slander. They are [not gold and silver ore, but] bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
AMP
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
KJV
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
NIV
And God made the [wild] beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and domestic animals according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (fitting, pleasant) and He approved it.
AMP
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
KJV
