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1 Samuel 20:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 8 Show loyal love to your servant,+ for you have brought your servant into Jehovah’s covenant with you.+ But if I am guilty,+ put me to death yourself. Why turn me over to your father?”

1 Samuel 20:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 And you must render loving-kindness* toward your servant,+ for it is into a covenant+ of Jehovah that you have brought your servant with you. But if there is error in me,+ put me to death yourself, since why should it be to your father that you should bring me?”

1 Samuel 20:8

The Bible in Living English
- 8 and act a friend’s part by your servant (since you have taken your servant into a pledge in the name of Jehovah) and if there is crime in me, kill me yourself: what should you bring me to your father for?”

1 Samuel 20:8

American Standard Version
- 8 Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee: but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

1 Samuel 20:8

The Emphasized Bible
- 8 Thus shalt thou do a lovingkindness for thy servant, for into a covenant of Yahweh hast thou brought thy servant with thee,—But, if there is in me transgression, put me to death thyself, for unto thy father wherefore shouldst thou bring me in?

1 Samuel 20:8

King James Version
- 8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?