Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
New American Standard Bible
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.
King James Version
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Holman Bible
Dear friend,
International Standard Version
Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy.
A Conservative Version
Beloved, I pray for thee to prosper concerning all things, and to be healthy, just as thy soul prospers.
Amplified
Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul prospers [spiritually].
An Understandable Version
[My] dearly loved [friend], I am praying that you will do well in everything [materially ?] and that you will have [good] health, just as your soul [i.e., your spiritual life] is doing well.
Anderson New Testament
Beloved, I pray above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Bible in Basic English
My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.
Common New Testament
Beloved, I pray that you may be in good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I wish, my beloved, you may be as prosperous with regard to your health and other circumstances, as in what concerns your soul.
Darby Translation
Beloved, I desire that in all things thou shouldest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Beloved, I pray, that with respect to all things, you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Godbey New Testament
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper concerning all things and be well, as your soul prospers.
Goodspeed New Testament
Dear friend, it is my prayer that everything is going well with you and that you are well; I know it is well with your soul.
John Wesley New Testament
Beloved, I wish above all things, that thou mayst prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospereth.
Julia Smith Translation
Dearly beloved, I pray above all things that thou succeed and be in good health, as thy soul succeeds.
King James 2000
Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Dear friend, I pray you may prosper concerning everything and be healthy, just as your soul prospers.
Modern King James verseion
Beloved, in regard to all things I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wellbeloved, I wish in all things that thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soul prospereth.
Moffatt New Testament
Beloved, I pray you may prosper in every way and keep well ??as indeed your soul is keeping well.
Montgomery New Testament
I pray that you may prosper, beloved, in every way, and be in good health, even as your soul is prospering.
NET Bible
Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
New Heart English Bible
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in good health, even as your soul prospers.
Noyes New Testament
Beloved, in all things I pray that thou mayst prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospereth.
Sawyer New Testament
Beloved, I desire above all things that you may prosper and be in health, as your soul prospers.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Beloved, above all things I pray that thou mayest prosper, and be in sound health of body, even as thy soul prospereth.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health--I know that all is well with your soul.
Webster
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Weymouth New Testament
My dear friend, I pray that you may in all respects prosper and enjoy good health, just as your soul already prospers.
Williams New Testament
Dearly beloved, I am praying for you to continue to prosper in everything, and to keep well, just as your soul is prospering.
World English Bible
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Worrell New Testament
Beloved, I pray that, in all things, you may be prosperous, and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
Worsley New Testament
Beloved, I earnestly pray, that thou mayst prosper and be in health, as thy soul prospereth.
Youngs Literal Translation
beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
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Encouragement For Gaius
1 The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. 2 Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.
Cross References
Psalm 20:1-5
Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
Philippians 2:4
not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Philippians 2:27
for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
Colossians 1:4-6
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,
1 Thessalonians 1:3-10
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
1 Thessalonians 2:13-14
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 3:6-9
But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also to see you;
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
1 Peter 4:8
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
2 Peter 1:3-9
seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
3 John 1:3-6
For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.
Revelation 2:9
I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they art not, but are a synagogue of Satan.