For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for mankind?
1 Corinthians 15:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hope only in this life and that is all, then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied. American Standard Version (1901) If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. Common English Bible If we have a hope in Christ only in this life, then we deserve to be pitied more than anyone else. Catholic Public Domain Version If we have hope in Christ for this life only, then we are more miserable than all men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. |
For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for mankind?
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
‘Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.
‘Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.’
strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, ‘It is necessary to go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.’
We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work produced by faith, your labour motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me , until that day.
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.
In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘so they will rest from their labours, since their works follow them.’