Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
NIV
Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
AMP
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
KJV
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples."
NIV
So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples.
AMP
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
KJV
They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
NIV
And say, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the forefathers fell asleep, all things have continued exactly as they did from the beginning of creation.
AMP
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
KJV
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling
NIV
Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).
AMP
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
KJV
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
NIV
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
AMP
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
KJV
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
NIV
If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
AMP
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
KJV
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him
NIV
As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.
AMP
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
KJV
Strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. "We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God," they said.
NIV
Establishing and strengthening the souls and the hearts of the disciples, urging and warning and encouraging them to stand firm in the faith, and [telling them] that it is through many hardships and tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
AMP
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
KJV
