Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
NIV
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.
AMP
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
KJV
Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?"
NIV
And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus [Mars Hill meeting place], saying, May we know what this novel (unheard of and unprecedented) teaching is which you are openly declaring?
AMP
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
KJV
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
NIV
So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.
AMP
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
KJV
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."
NIV
And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.
AMP
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
KJV
For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
NIV
For we hold that a man is justified and made upright by faith independent of and distinctly apart from good deeds (works of the Law). [The observance of the Law has nothing to do with justification.]AMP
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
KJV
The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, "Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?" "Yes, I know," Elisha replied, "so be quiet."
NIV
The prophets' sons who were at Bethel came to Elisha and said, Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today? He said, Yes, I know it; hold your peace.
AMP
And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
KJV
"You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name."
NIV
You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, lightly or frivolously, in false affirmations or profanely]; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
AMP
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
KJV
And I have the same hope in God as these people themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
NIV
Having [the same] hope in God which these themselves hold and look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous (the just and the unjust).
AMP
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
KJV