For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
- BSB For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
- ESV For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”
- NKJV For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
- NASB For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
- NLT For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “May you have peace.”
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
- Phil 2:2–5make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- 1 Sam 25:6Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
- Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- Jas 3:13–18Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- Eph 4:4–6There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
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