Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
It is right to do this, and it pleases God our Savior,
New American Standard Bible
This is good and acceptable in the sight of
King James Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Holman Bible
This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,
International Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
A Conservative Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
American Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Amplified
This [kind of praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
An Understandable Version
This is good and acceptable [behavior] in the sight of God our Savior,
Anderson New Testament
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Bible in Basic English
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;
Common New Testament
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Daniel Mace New Testament
for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,
Darby Translation
for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,
Godbey New Testament
This is beautiful and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
John Wesley New Testament
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
Julia Smith Translation
For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God;
King James 2000
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Lexham Expanded Bible
This [is] good and acceptable before God our Savior,
Modern King James verseion
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For that is good and accepted in the sight of god our saviour,
Moffatt New Testament
it is good to pray thus, it is acceptable to our Saviour,
Montgomery New Testament
For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God,
NET Bible
Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,
New Heart English Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Noyes New Testament
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
Sawyer New Testament
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
The Emphasized Bible
This, is comely and acceptable before our Saviour God,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this is becoming, and acceptable before God our Saviour;
Twentieth Century New Testament
This will be good and acceptable in the eyes of God, our Savior,
Webster
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Weymouth New Testament
This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour,
Williams New Testament
This is the right thing to do and it pleases God our Saviour,
World English Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
Worrell New Testament
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Worsley New Testament
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour:
Youngs Literal Translation
for this is right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 2:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions To Pray For All People
2 for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity. 3 It is right to do this, and it pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by order of God our Savior and of Jesus Christ our hope,
Luke 1:47
My spirit exults in God my Savior.
1 Timothy 5:4
If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.
Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
Romans 14:18
Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.
Ephesians 5:9-10
for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;
Philippians 1:11
with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
Philippians 4:18
You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.
Colossians 1:10
so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.
2 Timothy 1:9
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 13:16
But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.
1 Peter 2:5
and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.