Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

New American Standard Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

King James Version

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Holman Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.

International Standard Version

and straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.

A Conservative Version

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead.

American Standard Version

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Amplified

Cut through and make smooth, straight paths for your feet [that are safe and go in the right direction], so that the leg which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather may be healed.

An Understandable Version

make straight paths for your feet," so that crippled limbs will not remain [permanently] disabled, but rather will be healed. [Note: The idea here is "remove all barriers to spiritual growth so you can live a faithful life"].

Anderson New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned aside; but rather let it be restored to health.

Common New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

Daniel Mace New Testament

clear the way for your feet, lest that which is lame should be quite out of joint, instead of being redress'd."

Darby Translation

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

Godbey New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, in order that whatsoever is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather may it be healed.

Goodspeed New Testament

And keep your feet in straight paths, so that limbs that are lame may not be dislocated but instead be cured.

John Wesley New Testament

And make strait paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

Julia Smith Translation

And make straight wheel-ruts to your feet, lest the lame thing turned aside; and it should rather be healed.

King James 2000

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Modern King James verseion

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and see that ye have straight steps unto your feet, lest any halting turn out of the way: yea, let it rather be healed.

Moffatt New Testament

And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole.

Montgomery New Testament

make straight path for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

NET Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

New Heart English Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Noyes New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.

Sawyer New Testament

and make straight courses for your feet, that the lame may not be turned out of the way, but may rather be healed.

The Emphasized Bible

And, straight tracks, be making for your feet - that the lame member may not be dislocated, but, be healed rather.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and make strait paths for your feet, that what is halting may not be turned out of the way; but that it may rather be healed.

Twentieth Century New Testament

make straight paths for your feet,' so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured.

Webster

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Weymouth New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put entirely out of joint

Williams New Testament

and keep your feet in straight paths, so that limbs may not be dislocated, but instead be cured.

World English Bible

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Worrell New Testament

and make straight paths for your feet, that the lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Worsley New Testament

And make strait paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Youngs Literal Translation

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

ὀρθός 
Orthos 
Usage: 2

τροχιά 
Trochia 
Usage: 1

for
πούς 
Pous 
Usage: 67

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

πούς 
Pous 
Usage: 67

μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

χωλός 
Cholos 
Usage: 9

be turned out of the way
ἐκτρέπω 
Ektrepo 
Usage: 5

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

let it
ἰάομαι 
Iaomai 
Usage: 26

μᾶλλον 
Mallon 
more, rather, the more, better ,
Usage: 66

References

Context Readings

A Serious Warning Against Refusing God

12 For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, 13 And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong. 14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;



Cross References

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

Proverbs 4:26-27

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

Isaiah 35:3

Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

Isaiah 35:6

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

Isaiah 35:8-10

And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

Isaiah 40:3-4

A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Isaiah 58:12

And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

Jeremiah 18:15

For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

Jeremiah 31:8-9

See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

Luke 3:5

Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;

James 5:16

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

Jude 1:22-23

And have pity on those who are in doubt;

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