Parallel Verses

Goodspeed New Testament

But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

New American Standard Bible

Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

King James Version

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Holman Bible

In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

International Standard Version

Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.

A Conservative Version

And also all those who want to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

American Standard Version

Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Amplified

Indeed, all who delight in pursuing righteousness and are determined to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be hunted and persecuted [because of their faith].

An Understandable Version

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in [the service of] Christ will be persecuted.

Anderson New Testament

And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

Bible in Basic English

Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.

Common New Testament

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Daniel Mace New Testament

and those who will live like Christians, shall generally suffer persecution.

Darby Translation

And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Godbey New Testament

But truly all wishing to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

John Wesley New Testament

Yea and all that are resolved to live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

Julia Smith Translation

And all wishing to live devotedly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out.

King James 2000

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And indeed, all those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecutions.

Moffatt New Testament

Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Montgomery New Testament

Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

NET Bible

Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

New Heart English Bible

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Noyes New Testament

Yea, and all that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Sawyer New Testament

And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea and, all who are determined to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus, will be persecuted;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And all indeed who will live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Yes, and all who aim at living a religious life in union with Christ Jesus will have to suffer persecution;

Webster

And all indeed that will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Weymouth New Testament

And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Williams New Testament

Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

World English Bible

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Worrell New Testament

Yea, and all who wish to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Worsley New Testament

And indeed all, that are desirous to live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

Youngs Literal Translation

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Yea
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

that will
θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136

ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

εὐσεβῶς 
Eusebos 
Usage: 2

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

References

Images 2 Timothy 3:12

Context Readings

The Value Of The Scriptures

11 my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all. 12 But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 and bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

Cross References

Acts 14:22

reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

Matthew 10:22-25

You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

Matthew 23:34

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

Mark 10:30

but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.

Luke 14:26-27

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

John 15:19-21

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

John 16:2

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

John 16:33

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

John 17:14

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,

1 Timothy 2:2

for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

1 Timothy 3:16

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

1 Timothy 6:3

Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching

Titus 1:1

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,

Hebrews 11:32-38

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

1 Peter 3:14

Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,

1 Peter 4:12-16

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,

1 Peter 5:9-10

Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

2 Peter 3:11

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

Revelation 1:9-10

I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept away one third of the stars of heaven and flung them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 12:7-10

Then war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought

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