And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous – to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.’

and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

‘So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.

“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,

For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

being ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete.

in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For people will be lovers of self lovers of money proud arrogant, abusive disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient unfit for any good work.

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,

For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.