Then don’t let your good be slandered,
Parallel translations
- KJV Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
- BSB Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.
- NKJV Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
- NASB Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
- NLT Then you will not be criticized for doing something you believe is good.
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Cross-references · 4
- 1 Cor 10:29–30Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
- 1 Th 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
- Rom 12:17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
- 2 Cor 8:20–21We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
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