Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

铁磨铁，磨出刃来；朋友相感也是如此。

以铁磨铁，越磨越利，朋友当面琢磨，也是如此。

以铁磨铁，越磨越利，朋友当面琢磨，也是如此。

朋友互相切磋，如铁磨铁越磨越利。

铁磨铁，磨得锋利；朋友互相切磋，才智（“才智”原文作“面”）也变得敏锐。

铁磨利铁，朋友互相磨砺也是如此。

鐵磨鐵，磨出刃來；朋友相感也是如此。

以鐵磨鐵，越磨越利，朋友當面琢磨，也是如此。

以鐵磨鐵，越磨越利，朋友當面琢磨，也是如此。

朋友互相切磋，如鐵磨鐵越磨越利。

鐵磨鐵，磨得鋒利；朋友互相切磋，才智（“才智”原文作“面”）也變得敏銳。

鐵磨鐵、使它銳利；朋友相琢磨、使容光煥發。

鐵磨利鐵，朋友互相磨礪也是如此。

友朋相磨、如以鐵礪鐵、

以鐵治鐵、交相磨礪、益友亦若是、

鐵刃礪以鐵、人怒激以人、

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another.

As iron sharpens iron, So one person sharpens another.

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

And Jonathan, Saul’s son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.Say to those who have an anxious heart,“ Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

And he said,“ If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,

which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

And they said to the messengers who had come,“ Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead:‘ Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.Therefore the men of Jabesh said,“ Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”

Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

And they said to Joshua,“ Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.”