Verse 2

Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Vær våken, og styrk det som er tilbake, som er i ferd med å dø; for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger perfekte for Gud.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Vær oppmerksom, og styrk det som ennå lever, for jeg har ikke funnet gjerningene dine fullstendige i Guds øyne.

• Norsk King James

  Vær våken, og styrk det som fremdeles er igjen, og som er i ferd med å dø; for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Våkn opp og styrk det som er igjen, som holder på å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Våk og styrk det som er igjen, som er nær ved å dø; for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Vær våken og styrk det som gjenstår, som er i ferd med å dø. For jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Vær våken, og styrk det som gjenstår, som er i ferd med å dø: for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Vær på vakt og styrk de delene som fremdeles er, de som er nær ved å gå til grunne; for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Vær våken og styrk det som står igjen, som holder på å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet at dine gjerninger er fullkomne framfor Gud.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Vær våken og styrk det som står igjen, som holder på å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet at dine gjerninger er fullkomne framfor Gud.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Bli våken og styrk det som er igjen, som er i ferd med å dø. For jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die. For I have not found your works complete in the sight of God.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Våk og styrk det som er igjen og snart vil dø. For jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Guds ansikt.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vaagn op og styrk det Øvrige, som vil døe! thi jeg haver ikke fundet dine Gjerninger fuldkommede for Gud.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Be watchful, and stngthen the things which main, that a ady to die: for I have not found thy works perfect befo God.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Våk og styrk det som er igjen, som er nær ved å dø. For jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Våkn opp og styrk det som er igjen, som du var nær ved å kaste bort, for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Våkne opp og styrk det som er igjen og som holder på å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullgode for Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Vær våken og styrk de som er igjen, de som var i ferd med å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet at dine gjerninger er fullkomne for min Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Våk, og styrk det som er igjen og som holder på å dø, for jeg har ikke funnet dine gjerninger fullkomne for Gud.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Be awake and strength the thynges which remayne that are redy to dye. For I have not founde thy workes perfaycte before god.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Be awake, and strength the thinges which remayne, that are redy to dye. For I haue not founde thy workes perfecte before God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Be awake, and strengthen the things which remaine, that are readie to die: for I haue not found thy workes perfite before God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Be awake, and strength the thynges which remayne, that are redie to dye: For I haue not founde thy workes perfect before God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Rev 2:4 : 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.
• Acts 18:23 : 23 And after spending some time there, he departed and went over all the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
• Acts 20:28-31 : 28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. 31 Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
• 2 Tim 4:1-4 : 1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
• Deut 3:28 : 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you see.
• 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
• 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
• 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
• Job 4:4-5 : 4 Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have strengthened feeble knees. 5 But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.
• Job 16:5 : 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would ease your grief.
• Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
• Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Isa 57:12 : 12 I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall not profit you.
• Isa 62:6-7 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never be silent day or night: you who remind the LORD, do not keep silent, 7 And give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
• Ezek 34:8-9 : 8 As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my flock; 9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Dan 5:27 : 27 TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting.
• Zech 11:16 : 16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed what stands still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hooves in pieces.
• Matt 6:2-4 : 2 Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do your charitable deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
• Matt 23:5 : 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,
• Matt 23:28-38 : 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
• Matt 24:42-51 : 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour you do not expect the Son of Man will come. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. 47 Truly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My master is delaying his coming, 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour that he is not aware of, 51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man comes.
• Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Take heed, watch and pray: for you do not know when the time is. 34 For the Son of Man is like a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. 35 Watch therefore: for you do not know when the master of the house comes, in the evening, or at midnight, or at the rooster crowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say to you I say to all, Watch.
• Luke 22:31-32 : 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail: and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.