1 Peter 4:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.

New Living Translation
If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs.

English Standard Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Berean Study Bible
Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

New American Standard Bible
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

NASB 1995
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

NASB 1977
By no means let any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

Amplified Bible
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or a thief, or any sort of criminal [in response to persecution], or as a troublesome meddler interfering in the affairs of others;

Christian Standard Bible
Let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
None of you, however, should suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

Contemporary English Version
But you deserve to suffer if you are a murderer, a thief, a crook, or a busybody.

Good News Translation
If you suffer, it must not be because you are a murderer or a thief or a criminal or a meddler in other people's affairs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you suffer, you shouldn't suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker.

International Standard Version
Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker.

NET Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

New King James Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters.

King James 2000 Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

New Heart English Bible
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler.

World English Bible
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.

American King James Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

American Standard Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

A Faithful Version
Assuredly, let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as an overlording busybody in other people's lives.

Darby Bible Translation
Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

English Revised Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

Webster's Bible Translation
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Se that none of you suffre as a murtherer or as a thefe or an evyll doar or as a busybody in other mens matters.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as a meddler into other men’s matters;

Berean Literal Bible
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a troublesome meddler,

Young's Literal Translation
for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

Smith's Literal Translation
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For let not anyone of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a prier into the affairs of others;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a railer, or a coveter of other men's things.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But let none of you suffer for being a murderer, or a thief, or a slanderer, or one who covets what belongs to another.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Only let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer.

Lamsa Bible
But let none of you suffer the fate of a murderer, or a thief, or a malefactor.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Godbey New Testament
But let no one of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other people's business:

Haweis New Testament
Let no one of you then suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or a meddler in other persons? business.

Mace New Testament
take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices.

Weymouth New Testament
But let not one of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.

Worrell New Testament
For let no one of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other men's matters;

Worsley New Testament
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as a malefactor, or as an intermeddler with other people's affairs.
















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