"Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."
NIV
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who receives and welcomes and takes into his heart any messenger of Mine receives Me [in just that way]; and he who receives and welcomes and takes Me into his heart receives Him Who sent Me [in that same way].
AMP
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
KJV
Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
NIV
I once more protest and testify to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the Law and its ordinances.
AMP
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
KJV
For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.
NIV
For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened.
AMP
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
KJV
The person who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful.
NIV
Whoever receives His testimony has set his seal of approval to this: God is true. [That man has definitely certified, acknowledged, declared once and for all, and is himself assured that it is divine truth that God cannot lie].
AMP
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
KJV
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
NIV
And the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering and indignantly complaining, saying, This man accepts and receives and welcomes [preeminently wicked] sinners and eats with them.
AMP
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
KJV