Parallel Verses

Godbey New Testament

Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith.

New American Standard Bible

Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

King James Version

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Holman Bible

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

International Standard Version

Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

A Conservative Version

Remember those who lead you, men who spoke the word of God to you, of whom, carefully observing the outcome of their conduct, imitate the faith--

American Standard Version

Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

Amplified

Remember your leaders [for it was they] who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct [the outcome of their godly lives], and imitate their faith [their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].

An Understandable Version

Remember your leaders who told you God's message. [Note: This probably refers to former preachers who had since died]. Consider the outcome of the way they lived and imitate their faith.

Anderson New Testament

Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: attentively consider the result of their conduct, and imitate their faith.

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

Common New Testament

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Remember those who have the rule over you, who have preach'd to you the word of God: imitate their faith; consider their conduct, and the exit they made.

Darby Translation

Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.

Goodspeed New Testament

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

John Wesley New Testament

Remember them that had the rule over you, who spake to you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Julia Smith Translation

Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:

King James 2000

Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; {considering the outcome of their way of life}, imitate their faith.

Modern King James verseion

Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Remember them which have the oversight of you, which have declared unto you the word of God: consider the conversation of their living, the end of whose conversation see that ye look upon, and follow their faith.

Moffatt New Testament

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

Montgomery New Testament

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the message of God to you; consider the issue of their lives, and imitate their faith.

NET Bible

Remember your leaders, who spoke God's message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

New Heart English Bible

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Noyes New Testament

Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God; and considering well the end of their manner of life, imitate their faith.

Sawyer New Testament

Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the end of their life follow the faith.

The Emphasized Bible

Be mindful of them who are guiding you, who, indeed, have spoken unto you, the word of God: the outgoing of whose behaviour, reviewing, be imitating, their faith.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Remember your presidents, who have spoken to you the word of God: the ultimate issue of whose conduct attentively observing, be imitators of their fidelity.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Do not forget your Leaders, the men who told you God's Message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Webster

Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.

Weymouth New Testament

Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.

Williams New Testament

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith.

World English Bible

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Worrell New Testament

Remember those who are your leaders, who spake to you the word of God; and, considering the issue of whose manner of life, imitate their faith.

Worsley New Testament

Remember your guides, who spake the word of God to you; whose faith imitate, considering the happy end of their conversation.

Youngs Literal Translation

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μνημονεύω 
Mnemoneuo 
Usage: 13

ἡγέομαι 
hegeomai 
Usage: 27

you
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

who
ὅστις ἥτις ὅ6τι 
hostis 
Usage: 112

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

the word
λόγος 
Logos 
word, saying, account, speech, Word , thing, not tr,
Usage: 256

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

πίστις 
Pistis 
Usage: 221

μιμέομαι 
Mimeomai 
Usage: 4

ἀναθεωρέω 
Anathaoreo 
Usage: 2

the end
ἔκβασις 
Ekbasis 
way of escape, end
Usage: 2

of
ἀναστροφή 
Anastrophe 
Usage: 13

Context Readings

Concluding Ethical Instructions

6 so being confident we say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear; what shall man do unto me? 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

Cross References

Hebrews 6:12

in order that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and longsufferings do inherit the promises.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders, and be submissive: for they are watching for your souls, as they shall give an account that they may do this with joy and not with grief, for this is unprofitable to you.

Hebrews 13:24

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.

Matthew 24:45

Then who is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord placed over his household to give them their food in season?

Acts 14:23

And electing elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Luke 8:11

And this is the parable: The seed is the word of God.

Luke 12:42

The Lord said, Who then is the faithful, wise steward, whom the lord will establish over his house-hold, to give them their food in season?

Acts 4:31

And they praying, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

Acts 7:55-60

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Acts 13:46

And Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly, said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: since you have rejected it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold we now turn to the Gentiles.

Romans 10:17

Then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:16

Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 11:1

Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17

Be ye my imitators, brethren, and mark those thus walking about as you have us an example.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you became imitators of us, and the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with the joy of the Holy Ghost;

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13

But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you;

2 Thessalonians 3:7

For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

2 Thessalonians 3:9

not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.

1 Timothy 3:5

but if any one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and in patience in Jesus, was in the island which is called Patmos, on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 6:9

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw beneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain on account of the word of God, and the testimony which they had.

Revelation 20:4

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God, who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and they did not receive his mark on their forehead, and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

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