Parallel Verses

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;'

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.

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 And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; 11 for it hath been written, 'I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;' 12 so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

Cross References

Numbers 14:21

and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- with the honour of Jehovah;

Numbers 14:28

say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

Psalm 72:11

And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,

Isaiah 45:22-25

Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I am God, and there is none else.

Isaiah 49:18

Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, They have come to thee. I live, an affirmation of Jehovah! Surely all of them as an ornament thou puttest on, And thou bindest them on like a bride.

Jeremiah 22:24

I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah Were a seal on My right hand, Surely thence I draw thee away,

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation -- unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.

Matthew 10:32

'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

Romans 10:9

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

Romans 15:9

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, 'Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

Philippians 2:10-11

that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --

1 John 4:15

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

2 John 1:7

because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.

Revelation 5:14

and the four living creatures said, 'Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.

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