So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
NIV
Therefore be always alert and on your guard, being mindful that for three years I never stopped night or day seriously to admonish and advise and exhort you one by one with tears.
AMP
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
KJV
"But few things are needed – or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."
NIV
There is need of only one or but a few things. Mary has chosen the good portion [that which is to her advantage], which shall not be taken away from her.
AMP
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
KJV
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
NIV
[About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?
AMP
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
KJV
Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!"
NIV
And a cloud threw a shadow upon them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the [most dearworthy] Beloved One. Be constantly listening to and obeying Him!
AMP
And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
KJV
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence."
NIV
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.
AMP
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
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