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Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment;
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English Standard Version
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
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King James Version
1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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The Message Bible
1 Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards.
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New American Standard Bible
1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.
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New International Version
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
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New King James Version
1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
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New Living Translation
1 Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged more strictly.
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New Revised Standard
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
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American Standard Version
1 Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.
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The Bible in Basic English
1 Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
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Common English Bible
1 My brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers, because we know that we teachers will be judged more strictly.
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
1 My brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers, because we know that we teachers will be judged more strictly.
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The Complete Jewish Bible
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, since you know that we will be judged more severely.
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The Darby Translation
1 Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
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Good News Translation
1 My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
1 My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.
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GOD'S WORD Translation
1 Brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers. You know that we who teach will be judged more severely.
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Hebrew Names Version
1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
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Jubilee Bible 2000
1 My brethren, make not unto yourselves many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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Lexham English Bible
1 Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.
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New Century Version
1 My brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
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New International Reader's Version
1 My brothers and sisters, most of you shouldn't want to be teachers. You know that those of us who teach will be held more accountable.
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
1 Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.
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Revised Standard Version
1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
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SBL Greek New Testament
1 Μὴ πολλοὶ διδάσκαλοι γίνεσθε, ἀδελφοί μου, εἰδότες ὅτι μεῖζον κρίμα λημψόμεθα ·
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Third Millennium Bible
1 My brethren, let not many be masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
1 My brethren, let not many be masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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Tyndale
1 My brethren be not every ma a master remembringe how that we shall receave the more damnacion:
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The Latin Vulgate
1 nolite plures magistri fieri fratres mei scientes quoniam maius iudicium sumitis
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The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha
1 nolite plures magistri fieri fratres mei scientes quoniam maius iudicium sumitis
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The Webster Bible
1 My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
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World English Bible
1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
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Weymouth New Testament
1 Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you know that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement.
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Wycliffe
1 My brethren, do not ye be made many masters, witting that ye take the more doom.
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Young's Literal Translation
1 Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,
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