11 translations · Hebrew
2 Chronicles 15:7
But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
2 Chronicles 15:7 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
- KJV King James Version
- Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- and you, be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.”
- FBV Free Bible Version
- But you need to be strong, not weak, for you will be rewarded for the work you do.”
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands he weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתֶּ֣ם | wə·’at·tem | But as for you | H859 אַתָּ֫ה you(m.s.) |
| חִזְק֔וּ | ḥiz·qū | be strong | H2388 חָזַק to strengthen: strengthen |
| וְאַל־ | wə·’al- | do not | H408 אַל not |
| יִרְפּ֖וּ | yir·pū | be discouraged | H7503 רָפָה to slacken |
| יְדֵיכֶ֑ם | yə·ḏê·ḵem | — | H3027 יָד hand |
| כִּ֛י | kî | for | H3588 כִּי for |
| יֵ֥שׁ | yêš | will be | H3426 יֵשׁ there |
| שָׂכָ֖ר | śā·ḵār | rewarded | H7939 שָׂכָר wages |
| לִפְעֻלַּתְכֶֽם׃ס | lip̄·‘ul·laṯ·ḵem | your work | H6468 פְּעֻלָּה wages |
Related verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
- Joshua 1:9
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
- Hebrews 10:35
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
- 1 Chronicles 28:20
David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
- Genesis 15:1
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
- Psalm 58:11
so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
- 2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
- Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
7 But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 15 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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