KJV:
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
NASB:
For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
KJV:
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
NASB:
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
KJV:
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
NASB:
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
KJV:
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
NASB:
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
KJV:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
NASB:
obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
KJV:
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
NASB:
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
KJV:
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
NASB:
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
KJV:
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
NASB:
For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
KJV:
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
NASB:
who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.