Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops
NIV
Honor the Lord with your capital and sufficiency [from righteous labors] and with the firstfruits of all your income; [Deut. 26:2; Mal. 3:10; Luke 14:13, 14.]AMP
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
KJV
It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.
NIV
For these [traveling missionaries] have gone out for the Name's sake (for His sake) and are accepting nothing from the Gentiles (the heathen, the non-Israelites).
AMP
Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
KJV
"You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."
NIV
Like a mantle [thrown about one's self] You will roll them up, and they will be changed and replaced by others. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end nor come to failure. [Ps. 102:25-27.]AMP
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
KJV
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
NIV
Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God's] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.
AMP
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
KJV
I did not receive it from any human source, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
NIV
For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through a [direct] revelation [given] by Jesus Christ (the Messiah).
AMP
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
KJV
In truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left
NIV
By [speaking] the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand [to attack] and for the left hand [to defend]AMP
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
KJV
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.
NIV
So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
AMP
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
KJV
