"For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king."
NIV
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, slain, and wiped out of existence! But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have held my tongue, for our affliction is not to be compared with the damage this will do to the king.
AMP
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
KJV
If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
NIV
Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God's hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].
AMP
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
KJV
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
NIV
For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices.
AMP
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
KJV
For it doesn't go into your heart but into your stomach, and then out of your body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)"
NIV
Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law].
AMP
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
KJV
