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Keywords: LIBERALITY,PARADOX,POOR,RICHES
Description: Proverbs 13:7
NET Translation: There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
DARBY Translation: There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.
KJV Translation: There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.
Keywords: LIFE,MARTYRDOM,PARADOX,STOICISM,WORLDLINESS
Description: Matthew 10:39
NET Translation: Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
DARBY Translation: He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.
KJV Translation: “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”
Keywords: LIFE,MARTYRDOM,PARADOX,SELF-DENIAL,WORLDLINESS
Description: Matthew 16:25
NET Translation: For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
DARBY Translation: For whosoever shall desire to save his lifeD6812 shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.
KJV Translation: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
Keywords: PARADOX,RIGHTEOUS,SELF-DENIAL,STOICISM,WORLDLINESS
Description: Mark 8:35
NET Translation: For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.
DARBY Translation: For whosoever shallD7043 desire to save his life shallD7044 lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.
KJV Translation: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.”
Keywords: PARADOX,PERSECUTION,WORLDLINESS
Description: Luke 17:33
NET Translation: Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
DARBY Translation: Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
KJV Translation: “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,LIFE,MARTYRDOM,PARADOX,RIGHTEOUS,SELF-DENIAL,WORLDLINESS
Description: John 12:25
NET Translation: The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
DARBY Translation: He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
KJV Translation: “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”
Keywords: HUMILITY,PARADOX,PRIDE,WISDOM
Description: 1 Corinthians 3:18
NET Translation: Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
DARBY Translation: Let no one deceiveD8242 himself: if any one thinks himself to beD8243 wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
KJV Translation: Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,HOLY SPIRIT,LONGSUFFERING,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,OBEDIENCE,PARADOX,PATIENCE,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:4
NET Translation: But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,
DARBY Translation: but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much enduranceD8440, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
KJV Translation: But in all [things] approvingK6968ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Keywords: CHARACTER,PARADOX,PAUL,PERSECUTION,SLANDER,TRUTH
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:8
NET Translation: through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;
DARBY Translation: through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;
KJV Translation: By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;
Keywords: HADES,HEAVEN,PARADISE,PARADOX,WORDS
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:4
NET Translation: was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.
DARBY Translation: that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable things saidD8505 which it is not allowed to man to utter.
KJV Translation: How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawfulK6988for a man to utter.
Keywords: FAITH,HAPPINESS,JOY,PARADOX,PAUL,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:10
NET Translation: Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
DARBY Translation: Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
KJV Translation: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Keywords: PARADOX
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:11
NET Translation: I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
DARBY Translation: I have become a fool; *ye* have compelled me; for *I* ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.
KJV Translation: I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Verse Intro: Paul a Genuine Apostle with Concern for the Church at Corinth
Keywords: CHURCH,FAITH,JESUS THE CHRIST,LOVE,PARADOX,RIGHTEOUS
Description: Ephesians 3:17
NET Translation: that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,
DARBY Translation: that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,
KJV Translation: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Keywords: LOVE,OBEDIENCE,PARADOX,RIGHTEOUS,SACRIFICES,SALVATION,SELF-DENIAL,TESTIMONY,WISDOM
Description: Philippians 3:7
NET Translation: But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
DARBY Translation: but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.
KJV Translation: But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Keywords: GLASS,GOLD,HEAVEN,PARADOX
Description: Revelation 21:18
NET Translation: The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
DARBY Translation: And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:
KJV Translation: And the building of the wall of it was [of] jasper: and the city [was] pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Keywords: GATES,GLASS,GOLD,HEAVEN,PARADOX,PEARL
Description: Revelation 21:21
NET Translation: And the twelve gates are twelve pearls—each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
DARBY Translation: And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the gates, respectively, was of one pearl; and the street of the city pure gold, as transparent glass.
KJV Translation: And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city [was] pure gold, as it were transparent glass.