We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.
NIV
For we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about the affliction and oppressing distress which befell us in [the province of] Asia, how we were so utterly and unbearably weighed down and crushed that we despaired even of life[itself].
AMP
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
KJV
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
NIV
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].
AMP
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
KJV
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
NIV
So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
AMP
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
KJV
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and those who win souls are wise.
NIV
The fruit of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives [for God, as a fisher of men--he gathers and receives them for eternity]. [Matt. 4:19; I Cor. 9:19; James 5:20.]AMP
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
KJV
"And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.""
NIV
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many good things laid up, [enough] for many years. Take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself merrily.
AMP
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
KJV
After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
NIV
After two days He will revive us (quicken us, give us life); on the third day He will raise us up that we may live before Him. [Isa. 26:19; Ezek. 37:1-10.]AMP
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
KJV
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
NIV
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God], saying, For I have seen God face to face, and my life is spared and not snatched away.
AMP
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
KJV
