Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?
NIV
If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who [from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing?
AMP
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
KJV
When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia."
NIV
And when they arrived he said to them: You yourselves are well acquainted with my manner of living among you from the first day that I set foot in [the province of] Asia, and how I continued afterward
AMP
And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
KJV
So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
NIV
So he settled down among them for a year and six months, teaching the Word of God [concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God].
AMP
And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
KJV
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
NIV
He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. [II Cor. 12:9.]AMP
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
KJV
These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town
NIV
These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away; they returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his town
AMP
These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
KJV
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
NIV
Till I come, devote yourself to [public and private] reading, to exhortation (preaching and personal appeals), and to teaching and instilling doctrine.
AMP
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
KJV
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
NIV
But He [Himself] was in the stern [of the boat], asleep on the [leather] cushion; and they awoke Him and said to Him, Master, do You not care that we are perishing?
AMP
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
KJV
The angel answered me, "These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world."
NIV
And the angel answered me, These are the four winds or spirits of the heavens, which go forth from presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. [Ps. 104:4; Matt. 24:31.]AMP
And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of all the earth.
KJV
