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2 Timothy 3:12

In 9 translations

BSB
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
KJV
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
WEB
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
ASV
Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
LSV
And all who will to live piously in Christ Jesus will also be persecuted,
YLT
and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
DBY
And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
DRC
And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.
GNV
Yea, and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus, shall suffer persecution.

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  • Word order: Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles place εὐσεβῶς elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ζῆν εὐσεβῶς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles read ζῆν εὐσεβῶς; Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read εὐσεβῶς ζῆν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ πάντες δὲ οἱ θέλοντες ζῆν εὐσεβῶς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διωχθήσονται·
RP2018
Καὶ πάντες δὲ οἱ θέλοντες εὐσεβῶς ζῇν ἐν χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διωχθήσονται.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ πάντες δὲ οἱ θέλοντες εὐσεβῶς ζῇν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ διωχθήσονται.
SCR1894
και παντες δε οι θελοντες ευσεβως ζην εν χριστω ιησου διωχθησονται

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  • 1 Peter 3:14But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”
  • 1 Peter 4:12–16Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the…
  • 1 Peter 2:20–21How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also…
  • Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
  • Matthew 5:10–12Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.…
  • Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
  • John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
  • 1 Peter 5:9–10Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering. And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who…
  • John 15:19–21If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is…
  • Psalms 37:12–15The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them, but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming. The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay…
  • John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
  • Mark 10:30will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
  • Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
  • Matthew 10:22–25You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel…
  • Matthew 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
  • Luke 14:26–27“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot…

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