Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Holman Bible
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment,
International Standard Version
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others.
A Conservative Version
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
American Standard Version
Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.
Amplified
Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will
An Understandable Version
Not many of you should be teachers, my brothers, because you [should] know that we [teachers] will be judged more strictly.
Anderson New Testament
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Bible in Basic English
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
Common New Testament
Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Daniel Mace New Testament
My brethren, don't affect many of you to be doctors, considering, that those of us who are such, shall be tried with the greater severity.
Darby Translation
Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
Godbey New Testament
Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
Goodspeed New Testament
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
John Wesley New Testament
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive greater condemnation.
Julia Smith Translation
Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
King James 2000
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.
Modern King James verseion
My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My brethren, be not every man a master; Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.
Moffatt New Testament
My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.
Montgomery New Testament
Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.
NET Bible
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.
New Heart English Bible
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
Noyes New Testament
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Sawyer New Testament
BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I do not want many of you, my Brothers, to become teachers, knowing, as you do, that we who teach shall be judged by a more severe standard than others.
Webster
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Weymouth New Testament
Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you know that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement.
Williams New Testament
Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.
World English Bible
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
Worrell New Testament
My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.
Worsley New Testament
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we who are such shall pass a stricter trial than others: for in many things we all offend;
Youngs Literal Translation
Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Restraining The Tongue
1 Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive; 2 For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even the whole body.
Cross References
Luke 12:47-48
And, that servant, who had come to know the will of his lord, and neither prepared, nor wrought unto his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;
Acts 13:1
Now there were in Antioch, distributed through the existing assembly, - prophets and teachers: both Barnabas and Symeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also, Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother, and Saul.
Acts 20:26-27
Wherefore I take you to witness, on this very day, that, pure am I from the blood of all;
Romans 2:20-21
A trainer of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the forming of knowledge and truth in the law, -
1 Corinthians 4:2-5
Here, furthermore, it is sought in stewards, that, faithful, one be found.
1 Corinthians 11:29-32
For, he that is eating and drinking, - judgment unto himself, doth eat and drink, - if he be not setting apart the body.
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath, indeed, set, certain, in the assembly, - first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that mighty works, then gifts of healings, helps, guidings, kinds of tongues.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For, we all, must needs be made manifest before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may get back the things done by means of the body, according to the things which he practised, whether good or corrupt.
Ephesians 4:11
And, he, gave - some, indeed, to be apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, shepherds and teachers, -
1 Timothy 1:7
Desiring to be law-teachers, - not understanding, either what they say or whereof they confidently affirm.
1 Timothy 2:7
Unto which, I, have been appointed proclaimer and apostle - Truth I speak, I utter no falsehood - a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
2 Timothy 1:11
Whereunto, I, have been appointed herald and apostle and teacher;
Hebrews 13:17
Be yielding unto them who are guiding you, and submit yourselves; for they are watching over your souls, as having an account to render, that, with joy the same they may be doing, and not with sighing, - for, unprofitable unto you, were, this.
1 Peter 5:3
Nor yet as lording it over the allotted portions, but becoming, ensamples, to the beloved flock;
Leviticus 10:3
Then said Moses unto Aaron - The very thing, that Yahweh spake, saying - In them that draw near to me, must I be hallowed, And before the faces of all the people, must I get myself honour, - And Aaron, was dumb.
Ezekiel 3:17-18
Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee to the house of Israel, - and thou shalt hear, at my mouth a message, and shalt warn them from me.
Ezekiel 33:7-9
Thou therefore Son of man, A watchman, have I appointed thee, to the house of Israel, So then thou shalt hear at my mouth. message, and shalt warn them from me.
Malachi 2:12
May Yahweh, cut off, from the man that doeth it - him that crieth out and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, - him also that bringeth near a present to Yahweh of hosts.
Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that ye be not judged; -
Matthew 9:11
And, the Pharisees, observing it, began to say unto his disciples, - Wherefore, with tax-collectors and sinners, doth your Teacher eat?
Matthew 10:24
A, disciple, is not above, the teacher, nor, a servant, above, his lord:
Matthew 23:8-10
But, ye, - do not be called Rabbi, - for, one, is your Teacher, and, all ye, are brethren;
Luke 6:37
And do not judge, and in nowise shall ye be judged; and do not condemn, and in nowise shall ye be condemned; release, and ye shall be released;
Luke 16:2
And, accosting him, he said unto him - What is this I hear of thee? Render the account of thy stewardship, for thou canst no longer be steward.
John 3:10
Jesus answered, and said unto him - Art, thou, the teacher of Israel, and, these things, knowest not?