Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For it is written,
As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

King James Version

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Holman Bible

For it is written:

As I live, says the Lord,
every knee will bow to Me,
and every tongue will give praise to God.

International Standard Version

For it is written, "As certainly as I live, declares the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

A Conservative Version

For it is written, I live, says Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.

American Standard Version

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God.

Amplified

For it is written [in Scripture],

As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

An Understandable Version

For it is written [Isa. 45:23], "As surely as I am the living God, says the Lord, everyone's knee will bow before me, and everyone's mouth will confess to [or, praise] God."

Anderson New Testament

For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Bible in Basic English

For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

Common New Testament

For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

Daniel Mace New Testament

for it is written, "as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

Darby Translation

For it is written, I live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Godbey New Testament

For it has been written; As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Goodspeed New Testament

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God."

John Wesley New Testament

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Julia Smith Translation

For it has been written, I live, says the Lord, for to me shall every knee bend, and every tongue acknowledge to God.

King James 2000

For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

Modern King James verseion

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For it is written, "As truly as I live, saith the Lord, all knees shall bow to me, and all tongues shall give a knowledge to God."

Montgomery New Testament

For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess."

NET Bible

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God."

New Heart English Bible

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

Noyes New Testament

For it is written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall give praise to God."

Sawyer New Testament

For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess to God.

The Emphasized Bible

For it is written - Living am, I, saith the Lord, unto me, shall bow every knee, and, every tongue, shall openly confess unto God.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For it is written, "As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall make confession to God."

Twentieth Century New Testament

For Scripture says--'"As surely as I live," says the Lord, "every knee shall bend before me; and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God."'

Webster

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Weymouth New Testament

for it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'"

Williams New Testament

for the Scripture says: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God.'"

World English Bible

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

Worrell New Testament

For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God."

Worsley New Testament

for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Youngs Literal Translation

for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

it is written
γράφω 
Grapho 
Usage: 149

As I
ἐγώ 
Ego 
I, my, me, not tr
Usage: 174

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

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

the Lord
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

πᾶς 
Pas 
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704
Usage: 704

γονύ 
Gonu 
Usage: 12

κάμπτω 
Kampto 
bow
Usage: 4

to me
ἐμοί 
Emoi 
me, I, mine, my, 9
Usage: 58

and

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

γλῶσσα 
Glossa 
Usage: 48

ἐξομολογέω 
Exomologeo 
Usage: 8

Context Readings

Do Not Pass Judgment On One Another

10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 For it is written,
As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall give praise to God.”
12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Cross References

Numbers 14:21

But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,

Numbers 14:28

Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

Psalm 72:11

May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!

Isaiah 45:22-25

"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 49:18

Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does.

Jeremiah 22:24

"As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."

Matthew 10:32

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

Romans 10:9

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 15:9

and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

Philippians 2:10-11

so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

1 John 4:15

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Revelation 5:14

And the four living creatures said, "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped.

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