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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
- 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

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?