KJV:
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
NASB:
For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.
KJV:
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
NASB:
Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
KJV:
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
NASB:
I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.
KJV:
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
NASB:
But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.
KJV:
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
NASB:
Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.
KJV:
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
NASB:
Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.
KJV:
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
NASB:
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
KJV:
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
NASB:
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),