The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
NIV
The king went to Gibeon [near Jerusalem, where stood the tabernacle and the bronze altar] to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. One thousand burnt offerings Solomon offered on that altar.
AMP
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
KJV
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
NIV
Here [comes in a call for] the steadfastness of the saints [the patience, the endurance of the people of God], those who [habitually] keep God's commandments and [their] faith in Jesus.
AMP
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
KJV
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
NIV
Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant].
AMP
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
KJV
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son
NIV
By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test [while the testing of his faith was still in progress], had already brought Isaac for an offering; he who had gladly received and welcomed [God's] promises was ready to sacrifice his only son, [Gen. 22:1-10.]AMP
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
KJV
Who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
NIV
Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.
AMP
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
KJV
(What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions?
NIV
[But He ascended?] Now what can this, He ascended, mean but that He had previously descended from [the heights of] heaven into [the depths], the lower parts of the earth?
AMP
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
KJV