32:8 An honorable man makes honorable plans;
his honorable character gives him security. 1
12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 2 by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 3 – which is your reasonable service.
4:9 Is this blessedness 4 then for 5 the circumcision 6 or also for 7 the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” 8 4:10 How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!
1 tn Heb “and he upon honorable things stands.”
2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
3 tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.
4 tn Or “happiness.”
5 tn Grk “upon.”
6 sn See the note on “circumcision” in 2:25.
7 tn Grk “upon.”
8 sn A quotation from Gen 15:6.