1 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say¹ that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve² me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be!³ For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

Psalms 91:14

91:14 The Lord says,⁴

“Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him;

I will protect him⁵ because he is loyal to me.⁶

John 14:21

14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys⁷ them is the one who loves me.⁸ The one⁹ who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal¹⁰ myself to him.”

John 14:23

14:23 Jesus replied,¹¹ “If anyone loves me, he will obey¹² my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.¹³

John 16:27

16:27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.¹⁴

John 16:1

16:1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.¹⁵

John 4:19

4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see¹⁶ that you are a prophet.

¹tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

²tn Heb “walk about before.”

³tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

⁴tn The words “the Lord says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the words which follow are the Lord’s oracle of assurance.

⁵tn Or “make him secure” (Heb “set him on high”).

⁶tn Heb “because he knows my name” (see Ps 9:10).

⁷tn Or “keeps.”

⁸tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

⁹tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

¹⁰tn Or “will disclose.”

¹¹tn Grk “answered and said to him.”

¹²tn Or “will keep.”

¹³tn Grk “we will come to him and will make our dwelling place with him.” The context here is individual rather than corporate indwelling, so the masculine singular pronoun has been retained throughout v. 23. It is important to note, however, that the pronoun is used generically here and refers equally to men, women, and children.

¹⁴tc A number of early mss (א¹ B C* D L pc co) read πατρός (patros, “Father”) here instead of θεοῦ (qeou, “God”; found in Ì⁵ א*^,2 A C³ W Θ Ψ 33 Ë^1,13 Ï). Although externally πατρός has relatively strong support, it is evidently an assimilation to “I came from the Father” at the beginning of v. 28, or more generally to the consistent mention of God as Father throughout this chapter (πατήρ [pathr, “Father”] occurs eleven times in this chapter, while θεός [qeos, “God”] occurs only two other times [16:2, 30]).

¹⁵tn Grk “so that you will not be caused to stumble.”

¹⁶tn Grk “behold” or “perceive,” but these are not as common in contemporary English usage.