2 Samuel 14:14 - Catholic Public Domain Version

We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take away life, but devises means so that he who is banished may not be an utter outcast from Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Common English Bible

We all have to die—we’re like water spilled out on the ground that can’t be gathered up again. But God doesn’t take life away; instead, he makes plans so those banished from him don’t stay that way.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

We all die, and like waters that return no more we fall down into the earth. Neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth; meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

English Standard Version 2016

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

2 Samuel 14:14 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 11:25

And David said to the messenger: "You shall say these things to Joab: 'Do not let this matter dishearten you. For varied are the events of war. Now this one, and now that one, is consumed by the sword. Encourage your warriors against the city and exhort them, so that you may destroy it.' "

2 Samuel 14:15

Therefore, now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, in the presence of the people. And your handmaid said: I will speak to the king, for perhaps there may be some way for the king to accomplish the word of his handmaid.

1 Kings 11:39

And I will afflict the offspring of David over this, but truly not for all days.' "

Job 14:14

Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.

Job 30:23

I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.

Job 34:15

All flesh will fail together, and man will return to ashes.

Job 34:19

He does not accept the reputation of leaders; nor does he recognize the tyrant as he contends against the poor. For all are the work of his hands.

Psalm 58:7

They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

Psalm 77:8

May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God.

Psalm 79:3

in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Awaken your power and draw near, so as to accomplish our salvation.

Psalm 90:10

Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

Psalm 90:3

For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.

Exodus 21:13

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.

Lamentations 3:31

CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.

Ezekiel 18:23

How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?

Leviticus 26:40

until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to me.

Numbers 35:15

as much for the sons of Israel as for newcomers and sojourners, so that anyone who has shed blood unwillingly may flee to these places.

Numbers 35:25

then the innocent one shall be freed from the hand of the revenger, and he shall be returned by this judgment into the city to which he had fled, and he shall stay there until the high priest, who has been anointed with the holy oil, dies.

Numbers 35:28

For the fugitive ought to have resided in the city, until the death of the high priest. Then, after he is dead, the one who has killed shall be returned to his own land.

Matthew 22:16

And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying: "Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men.

Acts 10:34

Then, Peter, opening his mouth, said: "I have concluded in truth that God is not a respecter of persons.

Romans 2:11

For there is no favoritism with God.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God himself is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a God great and powerful and terrible, who favors no person and accepts no bribe.

Hebrews 9:27

And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one's work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.