I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.'
NIV
Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure and purpose
AMP
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
KJV
The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep."
NIV
He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me [with a deep, instinctive, personal affection for Me, as for a close friend]? Peter was grieved (was saddened and hurt) that He should ask him the third time, Do you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know everything; You know that I love You [that I have a deep, instinctive, personal affection for You, as for a close friend]. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.
AMP
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
KJV
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
NIV
But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].
AMP
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
KJV
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
NIV
[Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].
AMP
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
KJV
Those who listen to the word but do not do what it says are like people who look at their faces in a mirror
NIV
For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror
AMP
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
KJV
If we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
NIV
For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God].
AMP
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
KJV
So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
NIV
So accordingly they gathered them up, and they filled twelve [small hand] baskets with fragments left over by those who had eaten from the five barley loaves.
AMP
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
KJV
