How much more severely do you think those deserve to be punished who have trampled the Son of God underfoot, who have treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who have insulted the Spirit of grace?
NIV
How much worse (sterner and heavier) punishment do you suppose he will be judged to deserve who has spurned and [thus] trampled underfoot the Son of God, and who has considered the covenant blood by which he was consecrated common and unhallowed, thus profaning it and insulting and outraging the [Holy] Spirit [Who imparts] grace (the unmerited favor and blessing of God)? [Exod. 24:8.]AMP
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
KJV
Nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
NIV
And you have not His word (His thought) living in your hearts, because you do not believe and adhere to and trust in and rely on Him Whom He has sent. [That is why you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the Messenger Whom He has sent.]AMP
And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
KJV
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
NIV
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
AMP
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
KJV
"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set."
NIV
Put out of your minds the thought and do not suppose [as some of you are supposing] that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses you--it is Moses, the very one on whom you have built your hopes [in whom you trust].
AMP
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
KJV
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
NIV
And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).
AMP
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
KJV
Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows twice you will disown me three times." And he broke down and wept.
NIV
And at once for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus said to him, Before a cock crows twice, you will utterly deny Me [disclaiming all connection with Me] three times. And having put his thought upon it [and remembering], he broke down and wept aloud and lamented.
AMP
And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
KJV
So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?"
NIV
Therefore Sarah laughed to herself, saying, After I have become aged shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband), being old also? [I Pet. 3:6.]AMP
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
KJV
For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
NIV
For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me. [Ps. 69:9.]AMP
For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
KJV
