Matthew 19:29

19:29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much ¹  and will inherit eternal life.

Leviticus 25:20-21

25:20 If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’ 25:21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield ²  the produce ³  for three years,

Psalms 34:9-10

34:9 Remain loyal to ⁴  the Lord, you chosen people of his, ⁵ 

for his loyal followers ⁶  lack nothing!

34:10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry,

but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalms 37:3

37:3 Trust in the Lord and do what is right!

Settle in the land and maintain your integrity! ⁷ 

Psalms 37:18-19

37:18 The Lord watches over the innocent day by day ⁸ 

and they possess a permanent inheritance. ⁹ 

37:19 They will not be ashamed when hard times come; ¹⁰ 

when famine comes they will have enough to eat. ¹¹ 

Psalms 37:25

37:25 I was once young, now I am old.

I have never seen a godly man abandoned,

or his children ¹²  forced to search for food. ¹³ 

Psalms 84:11-12

84:11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. ¹⁴ 

The Lord bestows favor ¹⁵  and honor;

he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity. ¹⁶ 

84:12 O Lord who rules over all, ¹⁷ 

how blessed are those who trust in you! ¹⁸ 

Mark 10:30

10:30 who will not receive in this age ¹⁹  a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions ²⁰  – and in the age to come, eternal life. ²¹ 

Luke 18:29-30

18:29 Then ²²  Jesus ²³  said to them, “I tell you the truth, ²⁴  there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers ²⁵  or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom 18:30 who will not receive many times more ²⁶  in this age ²⁷  – and in the age to come, eternal life.” ²⁸ 

Romans 8:31

8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:1

The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit

8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ 

Colossians 3:22

3:22 Slaves, ³⁰  obey your earthly ³¹  masters in every respect, not only when they are watching – like those who are strictly people-pleasers – but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

Colossians 3:1

Exhortations to Seek the Things Above

3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 4:8

4:8 I sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are doing ³²  and that he may encourage your hearts.

[19:29]  ¹ sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (a hundred times as much) and (2) eternal life will be given.

[25:21]  ² tn Heb “and it [i.e., the land] shall make the produce.” The Hebrew term וְעָשָׂת (vÿ’asat, “and it shall make”) is probably an older third feminine singular form of the verb (GKC 210 §75.m). Smr has the normal form.

[25:21]  ³ tn Smr and LXX have “its produce” (cf. 25:3, 7, etc.) rather than “the produce.”

[34:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “fear.”

[34:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “O holy ones of his.”

[34:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[37:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “tend integrity.” The verb רָעָה (ra’ah, “tend, shepherd”) is probably used here in the sense of “watch over, guard.” The noun אֱמוּנָה (’emunah, “faithfulness, honesty, integrity”) is understood as the direct object of the verb, though it could be taken as an adverbial accusative, “[feed] securely,” if the audience is likened to a flock of sheep.

[37:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord knows the days of the innocent ones.” He “knows” their days in the sense that he is intimately aware of and involved in their daily struggles. He meets their needs and sustains them.

[37:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “and their inheritance is forever.”

[37:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in a time of trouble.”

[37:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in days of famine they will be satisfied.”

[37:25]  ¹² tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[37:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “or his offspring searching for food.” The expression “search for food” also appears in Lam 1:11, where Jerusalem’s refugees are forced to search for food and to trade their valuable possessions for something to eat.

[84:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “[is] a sun and a shield.” The epithet “sun,” though rarely used of Israel’s God in the OT, was a well-attested royal title in the ancient Near East. For several examples from Ugaritic texts, the Amarna letters, and Assyrian royal inscriptions, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 131, n. 2.

[84:11]  ¹⁵ tn Or “grace.”

[84:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he does not withhold good to those walking in integrity.”

[84:12]  ¹⁷ tn Traditionally “Lord of hosts.”

[84:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “[Oh] the happiness [of] the man [who] trusts in you.” Hebrew literature often assumes and reflects the male-oriented perspective of ancient Israelite society. The principle stated here is certainly applicable to all people, regardless of their gender or age. To facilitate modern application, we translate the gender and age specific “man” with the plural “those.” The individual referred to here is representative of all followers of God, as the use of the plural form in v. 12b indicates.

[10:30]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[10:30]  ²⁰ tn Grk “with persecutions.” The “all” has been supplied to clarify that the prepositional phrase belongs not just to the “fields.”

[10:30]  ²¹ sn Note that Mark (see also Matt 19:29; Luke 10:25, 18:30) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[18:29]  ²² tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[18:29]  ²³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ²⁴ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[18:29]  ²⁵ tn The term “brothers” could be understood as generic here, referring to either male or female siblings. However, it is noteworthy that in the parallel passages in both Matt 19:29 and Mark 10:29, “sisters” are explicitly mentioned in the Greek text.

[18:30]  ²⁶ sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (many times more) and (2) eternal life in the age to come will be given.

[18:30]  ²⁷ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[18:30]  ²⁸ sn Note that Luke (see also Matt 19:29; Mark 10:30; Luke 10:25) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[8:1]  ²⁹ tc The earliest and best witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texts, as well as a few others (א* B D* F G 6 1506 1739 1881 pc co), have no additional words for v. 1. Later scribes (A D¹ Ψ 81 365 629 pc vg) added the words μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν (mh kata sarka peripatousin, “who do not walk according to the flesh”), while even later ones (א² D² 33^vid Ï) added ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα (alla kata pneuma, “but [who do walk] according to the Spirit”). Both the external evidence and the internal evidence are compelling for the shortest reading. The scribes were evidently motivated to add such qualifications (interpolated from v. 4) to insulate Paul’s gospel from charges that it was characterized too much by grace. The KJV follows the longest reading found in Ï.

[3:22]  ³⁰ tn On this word here and in 4:1, see the note on “fellow slave” in 1:7.

[3:22]  ³¹ tn The prepositional phrase κατὰ σάρκα (kata sarka) does not necessarily qualify the masters as earthly or human (as opposed to the Master in heaven, the Lord), but could also refer to the sphere in which “the service-relation holds true.” See BDAG 577 s.v. κύριος 1.b.

[4:8]  ³² tn Grk “the things concerning us.”