Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.
New American Standard Bible
For you
King James Version
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Holman Bible
For you sympathized with the prisoners
International Standard Version
For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.
A Conservative Version
For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.
American Standard Version
For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
Amplified
For you showed sympathy and deep concern for those who were imprisoned, and you joyfully accepted the [unjust] seizure of your belongings and the confiscation of your property, conscious of the fact that you have a better possession and a lasting one [prepared for you in heaven].
An Understandable Version
For you showed sympathy for those who were in prison and accepted it joyfully when your [own] possessions were taken away, [because] you knew that you yourselves had a better and more permanent possession [in heaven].
Anderson New Testament
For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.
Bible in Basic English
For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
Common New Testament
For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for you were passionately affected for those who were in bonds, and were pleas'd at the seizing of your goods, knowing that you have what is more excellent and lasting.
Darby Translation
For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.
Godbey New Testament
For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.
Goodspeed New Testament
For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.
John Wesley New Testament
For ye sympathized with my bonds, and received with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Julia Smith Translation
For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.
King James 2000
For you had compassion on me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy [because you] knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
Modern King James verseion
For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For ye suffered also with my bonds, and took in worth the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves how that ye had in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.
Moffatt New Testament
for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.
Montgomery New Testament
For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.
NET Bible
For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.
New Heart English Bible
For you both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.
Noyes New Testament
For ye sympathized with those in bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and an enduring substance.
Sawyer New Testament
For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.
The Emphasized Bible
For, even with them who were in bonds, ye sympathised, and, unto the seizure of your goods, with joy, ye bade welcome, - knowing that ye have yourselves, for a better possession and an abiding.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For ye have been fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a better substance, and permanent.
Webster
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the seizing of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Weymouth New Testament
For you not only showed sympathy with those who were imprisoned, but you even submitted with joy when your property was taken from you, being well aware that you have in your own selves a more valuable possession and one which will remain.
Williams New Testament
For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, for you knew that you had in yourselves and in heaven one that was lasting.
World English Bible
For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
Worrell New Testament
for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.
Worsley New Testament
for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Youngs Literal Translation
for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.
Themes
Afflictions » Rejoicing in tribulation, examples of » Loss of property
Better » The keyword of Hebrews » Better possessions
Compassion » Examples of human » The barbarians
God's Promises » Of reward for spiritual service » For suffering endured
Joy » In sorrow in tribulation, examples of » Loss of property
Missionaries » In joyfully suffering for Christ
New » The keyword of Hebrews » Better possessions
Rejoicing » In tribulation, examples of » Loss of property
Reward » For spiritual service » For suffering endured
the Reward of saints » Described as » An enduring substance
Social duties » Compassion » The barbarians
the future » The rewards of the faithful for spiritual service » For suffering endured
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Prosdechomai
Chara
En
ἐν
En
Usage: 2128
heautou
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 10:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Serious Warning Against Continuing Deliberate Sin
33 Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped upon you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of men who were in the very position in which you had been. 34 For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one. 35 Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Peter 1:4
given us the new Life of undying hope, that promises an inheritance, imperishable, stainless, unfading, which has been reserved for you in Heaven--
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus; for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chains.
Hebrews 13:3
Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.
Matthew 5:11-12
Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.
Matthew 6:19-20
Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 19:21
"If you wish to be perfect," answered Jesus, "go and sell your property, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; then come and follow me."
Luke 10:42
But only a few are necessary, or rather one. Mary has chosen the good part, and it shall not be taken away from her."
Luke 12:33
Sell what belongs to you, and give in charity. Make yourselves purses that will not wear out--an inexhaustible treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes near, or moth works ruin.
Acts 5:41
But the Apostles left the Council, rejoicing that they had been thought worthy to suffer disgrace for that Name;
Acts 21:33
Then he went up to Paul, arrested him, ordered him to be doubly chained, and proceeded to inquire who he was, and what he had been doing.
Acts 28:20
This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the Hope of Israel that I am here in chains."
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our tent--that earthly body which is now our home--is taken down, we have a house of God's building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in Heaven.
Ephesians 3:1
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus, the Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles--
Ephesians 4:1
I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner in the Master's cause-- to live lives worthy of the Call that you have received;
Ephesians 6:20
On behalf of which I am an Ambassador--in chains! Pray that, in telling it, I may speak fearlessly as I ought.
Philippians 1:7
And, indeed, I am justified in feeling thus about you all; because you have a warm place in my heart--you who all, both in my imprisonment and in the work of defending and establishing the Good News, shared my privilege with me.
Colossians 1:5
On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you--
Colossians 3:2-4
Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.
1 Timothy 6:19
storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life.
2 Timothy 2:9
in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the Message of God is not fettered;
2 Timothy 4:8
And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just Judge, will give me on 'That Day'--and not only to me, but to all who have loved his Appearing.
Hebrews 11:16
But no, they were longing for a better, a heavenly, land! And therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God; indeed he had already prepared them a city.
James 1:2
My Brothers, whatever may be the temptations that beset you from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing,
1 John 3:2
Dear friends, we are God's Children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we shall be like Christ; because we shall see him as he is.