Romans 12:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;

New Living Translation
If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well.

English Standard Version
if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

Berean Study Bible
if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;

New American Standard Bible
if service, in the act of serving; or the one who teaches, in the act of teaching;

NASB 1995
if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

NASB 1977
if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

Amplified Bible
if service, in the act of serving; or he who teaches, in the act of teaching;

Christian Standard Bible
if service, use it in service; if teaching, in teaching;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
if service, in service; if teaching, in teaching;

Contemporary English Version
If we can serve others, we should serve. If we can teach, we should teach.

Good News Translation
if it is to serve, we should serve; if it is to teach, we should teach;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If your gift is serving, then devote yourself to serving. If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching.

International Standard Version
If your gift is serving, devote yourself to serving others. If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching others.

NET Bible
If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

New King James Version
or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;

King James 2000 Bible
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;

New Heart English Bible
or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

World English Bible
or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

American King James Version
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;

American Standard Version
or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

A Faithful Version
Or service, let us tend to service; or the one who is teaching, let him tend to teaching;

Darby Bible Translation
or service, [let us occupy ourselves] in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

English Revised Version
or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

Webster's Bible Translation
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or an office, let vs waite on the office: or he that teacheth, on teaching:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Either office in administration, or he that teacheth in teachyng:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let him that hath an office, wayte vpo the office: let him that teacheth, take hede to the doctryne:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Let him that hath an office wayte on his office. Let him that teacheth take hede to his doctrine.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
or ministry, in the ministry; or he who is teaching, in the teaching;

Berean Literal Bible
or service, in the service; or teaching, in the teaching;

Young's Literal Translation
or ministration -- 'In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- 'In the teaching!'

Smith's Literal Translation
Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction;

Literal Emphasis Translation
and if service, in the service; and if the one teaching, in the instruction;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;

Catholic Public Domain Version
or ministry, in ministering; or he who teaches, in doctrine;

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And one has ministry in his service, and one has that of a teacher in his instruction.

Lamsa Bible
Some have the gift of ministration, in his ministry; and some of teaching, in his teaching.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
or, if we have a ministry, let us be active in our ministry; if any one teaches, let him attend to his teaching;

Godbey New Testament
or ministry, it is in the ministry; or he that teacheth, in teaching;

Haweis New Testament
or if the deacon?s office, be active in the service; or he that teacheth, in teaching;

Mace New Testament
if it be the ministry, let him attend on that ministry; and he that teacheth, on teaching; he that exhorteth,

Weymouth New Testament
if it is the gift of administration, let the administrator exercise a sound judgement in his duties.

Worrell New Testament
or ministry, let us labor in the ministry; or he that teaches, in teaching;

Worsley New Testament
or ministry, let us attend to the ministry: or he that teacheth, on teaching: or he that exhorteth, on exhortation:
















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