Then I said, *Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
1 Corinthians 9:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if I [merely] preach the Gospel, that gives me no reason to boast, for I feel compelled of necessity to do it. Woe is me if I do not preach the glad tidings (the Gospel)! American Standard Version (1901) For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. Common English Bible If I preach the gospel, I have no reason to brag, since I’m obligated to do it. I’m in trouble if I don’t preach the gospel. Catholic Public Domain Version For if I preach the Gospel, it is not glory for me. For an obligation has been laid upon me. And woe to me, if I do not preach the Gospel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. |
Then I said, *Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
You therefore gird up your waist, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Yisra'el.'
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
But Yeshua said to him, *No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.*
But the Lord said to him, *Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Yisra'el.
But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.*
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
I have therefore my boasting in Messiah Yeshua in things pertaining to God.
For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, yet not many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News.
If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
Tell Archippus, *Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.*
Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.