John 16:2 — Compare Translations

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They will put you out of (expel you from) the synagogues; but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think and claim that he has offered service to God.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

They will put you out of (expel you from) the synagogues; but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think and claim that he has offered service to God.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;

English EASY 2024

People will send you away from their meeting places. There will be a time when people will want to kill you. When they do this, they will even think that they are doing what God wants.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

People will tell you to leave their synagogues and never come back. In fact, the time will come when they will think that killing you would be doing service for God.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

English God's Word - GW 1995

You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

English KJV 1611

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

English LSB

They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

You will be thrown out of the synagogue. In fact, a time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a favor.

English NIV

They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

English NKJ 1982

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

English NLT

For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For you will be excommunicated from the synagogues, and a time is coming when you will be put to death by misguided ones who will presume to be doing God a great service by putting you to death.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For you will be excommunicated from the synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service.

English Tyndale 1537

They shall excommunicate you: yea the time shall come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God true service.