If anyone does not love the Lord, let that person be cursed! Come, Lord!
NIV
If anyone does not love the Lord [does not have a friendly affection for Him and is not kindly disposed toward Him], he shall be accursed! Our Lord will come! (Maranatha!)
AMP
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
KJV
Nevertheless, each of you should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to you, just as God has called you. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
NIV
Only, let each one [seek to conduct himself and regulate his affairs so as to] lead the life which the Lord has allotted and imparted to him and to which God has invited and summoned him. This is my order in all the churches.
AMP
But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
KJV
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
NIV
For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us, this nature that is capable of dying] must put on immortality (freedom from death).
AMP
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
KJV
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
NIV
None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
AMP
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
KJV
Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
NIV
Does not the native sense of propriety (experience, common sense, reason) itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is a dishonor [humiliating and degrading] to him,
AMP
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
KJV
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
NIV
It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
AMP
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
KJV
You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the Lord's people. I urge you, brothers and sisters
NIV
Now, brethren, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts and our firstfruits in Achaia (most of Greece), and how they have consecrated and devoted themselves to the service of the saints (God's people).
AMP
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
KJV
