My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power
NIV
And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them]AMP
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
KJV
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
NIV
In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith (by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises.
AMP
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
KJV
An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
NIV
HE WHO willfully separates and estranges himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire and pretext to break out against all wise and sound judgment.
AMP
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
KJV
"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits."
NIV
This calls for a mind [to consider that is packed] with wisdom and intelligence [it is something for a particular mode of thinking and judging of thoughts, feelings, and purposes]. The seven heads are seven hills upon which the woman is sitting;
AMP
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
KJV
