I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.
NIV
That you may receive her in the Lord [with a Christian welcome], as saints (God's people) ought to receive one another. And help her in whatever matter she may require assistance from you, for she has been a helper of many including myself [shielding us from suffering].
AMP
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
KJV
For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
NIV
For Christ did not please Himself [gave no thought to His own interests]; but, as it is written, The reproaches and abuses of those who reproached and abused you fell on Me. [Ps. 69:9.]AMP
For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
KJV
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
NIV
Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death). [Ps. 73:22.]AMP
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
KJV
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
NIV
The right thing is to eat no meat or drink no wine [at all], or [do anything else] if it makes your brother stumble or hurts his conscience or offends or weakens him.
AMP
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
KJV
What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened
NIV
What then [shall we conclude]? Israel failed to obtain what it sought [God's favor by obedience to the Law]. Only the elect (those chosen few) obtained it, while the rest of them became callously indifferent (blinded, hardened, and made insensible to it).
AMP
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
KJV
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
NIV
Did that which is good then prove fatal [bringing death] to me? Certainly not! It was sin, working death in me by using this good thing [as a weapon], in order that through the commandment sin might be shown up clearly to be sin, that the extreme malignity and immeasurable sinfulness of sin might plainly appear.
AMP
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
KJV
What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God's faithfulness?
NIV
What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and His fidelity [to His Word]?
AMP
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
KJV
