Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience and careful instruction.
NIV
Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.
AMP
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
KJV
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
NIV
May grace (God's favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
AMP
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
KJV
So that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
NIV
So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody [self-supporting] and having need of nothing.
AMP
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
KJV
Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure – not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
NIV
O Lord, correct, instruct, and chastise me, but with judgment and in just measure--not in Your anger, lest You diminish me and bring me to nothing.
AMP
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
KJV
Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty."
NIV
Your own wickedness shall chasten and correct you, and your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you. Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: [first,] you have forsaken the Lord your God; [second,] you are indifferent to Me and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord of hosts.
AMP
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
KJV
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
NIV
You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
AMP
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
KJV
Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
NIV
He must correct his opponents with courtesy and gentleness, in the hope that God may grant that they will repent and come to know the Truth [that they will perceive and recognize and become accurately acquainted with and acknowledge it]AMP
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
KJV
