If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Parallel translations
- KJV If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
- BSB If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
- NKJV If I had said, “I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
- NASB ¶If I had said, “I will speak this way,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
- NLT If I had really spoken this way to others, I would have been a traitor to your people.
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- Rom 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- Mal 2:8But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Ps 24:6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.
- Matt 18:6–7but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
- Ps 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Rom 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
- Ps 22:30Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- 1 Sam 2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
- 1 Cor 8:11–13And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
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