Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Come to your senses; do what is right and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God [i.e., in a personal way]. I am saying this to make you ashamed.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Holman Bible
Come to your senses
International Standard Version
Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.
A Conservative Version
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
American Standard Version
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.
Amplified
Be sober-minded [be sensible, wake up from your spiritual stupor] as you ought, and stop sinning; for some [of you] have no knowledge of God [you are disgracefully ignorant of Him, and ignore His truths]. I say this to your shame.
Anderson New Testament
Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Bible in Basic English
Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
Common New Testament
Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Daniel Mace New Testament
rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.
Darby Translation
Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.
Godbey New Testament
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak to your shame.
Goodspeed New Testament
Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.
John Wesley New Testament
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Julia Smith Translation
Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.
King James 2000
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Sober up correctly and {stop sinning}, for some have no knowledge of God--I say [this] to your shame.
Modern King James verseion
Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.
Moffatt New Testament
Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.
Montgomery New Testament
Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.
NET Bible
Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God -- I say this to your shame!
New Heart English Bible
Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Noyes New Testament
Awake, as is your duty, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God; I say it to your shame.
Sawyer New Testament
Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.
The Emphasized Bible
Wake up to sobriety, in righteousness, and be not committing sin; for some have, an ignorance of God: for shame, unto you, am I speaking!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.
Webster
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Weymouth New Testament
Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
Williams New Testament
Sober up, as is right, and stop sinning, for some of you -- to your shame I say so -- are without any true knowledge of God.
World English Bible
Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Worrell New Testament
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God: I say it to your shame!
Worsley New Testament
Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.
Youngs Literal Translation
awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.
Themes
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
Righteousness » The wicked » Should awake to
Righteousness » Awaking to righteousness
Sin » Excuses offered for » Forbidden
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Forbidden
Wakefulness » Common causes of » Exhortations to moral and spiritual
Topics
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 15:34
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 15:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning The Resurrection Of The Dead
33 Do not be fooled; bad company ruins good moral behavior. 34 Come to your senses; do what is right and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God [i.e., in a personal way]. I am saying this to make you ashamed. 35 But someone will ask, "How are dead people raised up?" and "What kind of a body will they have?"
Cross References
Romans 13:11
Now this [is another reason for observing the law of love]: You should know that it is about time to wake up out of your [spiritual] sleep, because [the day of our final] salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed [in Christ].
1 Corinthians 6:5
I am saying this to make you ashamed. Can there not be found one wise person [there] among you who is able to decide [on a matter] between his [Christian] brothers?
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in passionate lust, as the [unconverted] Gentiles, who do not know God, do.
John 5:14
Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and said to him, "Look, you have been made well; stop sinning or else something worse [i.e., than the handicap you had] will happen to you."
John 8:11
She replied, "No sir, no one did." Then Jesus said, "[Well], I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on, do not sin anymore."}}
Romans 1:28
And since these people refused to acknowledge God, He has allowed [or, abandoned] them to have degraded minds and to practice those things which they should not do.
1 Corinthians 8:7
However, not every person knows this [truth]. For some people have been so used to an idol all this time that they still think of the idol [as a reality] when eating food that has been sacrificed to it. And their weak conscience becomes polluted. [Note: These people cannot seem to shake off the idea that somehow the idol is real, so feel guilty of wrongdoing when eating food sacrificed to it].
Ephesians 5:14
So, it says, "You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you]." [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone's immersion, which included the ideas of "rising up" (See Col. 2:12) and "illumination" (See Heb. 6:4)].
Hebrews 5:11-12
[Now] we have many things to say about Melchizedek, but because of your slowness to grasp things, they are hard to explain.