Isaiah 63:8

63:8 He said, “Certainly they will be my people,

children who are not disloyal.” ¹ 

He became their deliverer.

John 1:47

1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, ²  “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” ³ 

Colossians 3:9

3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

Revelation 14:5

14:5 and no lie was found on their lips; ⁴  they ⁵  are blameless.

Revelation 21:8

21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, ⁶  idol worshipers, ⁷  and all those who lie, their place ⁸  will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. ⁹  That ¹⁰  is the second death.”

Revelation 21:27

21:27 but ¹¹  nothing ritually unclean ¹²  will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable ¹³  or practices falsehood, ¹⁴  but only those whose names ¹⁵  are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

¹ tn Heb “children [who] do not act deceitfully.” Here the verb refers to covenantal loyalty.

² tn Grk “said about him.”

³ tn Or “treachery.”

⁴ tn Grk “in their mouth was not found a lie.”

⁵ tc Several mss (Ì⁴⁷ א 1 1006 1611 2351 Ï^K pc) have the conjunction “for” (γάρ, gar) here so that the phrase reads: “for they are blameless.” Other important mss (A C P 1854 2053 al lat) lack the word. The shorter reading is to be preferred since the scribes were more likely to make the connection explicit through the addition of “for” than they would have been to omit the conjunction. As it is, the passage without the conjunction makes good sense and evokes a very somber tone.

⁶ tn On the term φαρμακεία (farmakeia, “magic spells”) see L&N 53.100: “the use of magic, often involving drugs and the casting of spells upon people – ‘to practice magic, to cast spells upon, to engage in sorcery, magic, sorcery.’ φαρμακεία: ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ‘with your magic spells you deceived all the peoples (of the world)’ Re 18:23.”

⁷ tn Grk “idolaters.”

⁸ tn Grk “their share.”

⁹ tn Traditionally, “brimstone.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “sulfur, which is.” The relative pronoun has been translated as “that” to indicate its connection to the previous clause. The nearest logical antecedent is “the lake [that burns with fire and sulfur],” although “lake” (λίμνη, limnh) is feminine gender, while the pronoun “which” (ὅ, Jo) is neuter gender. This means that (1) the proper antecedent could be “their place” (Grk “their share,”) agreeing with the relative pronoun in number and gender, or (2) the neuter pronoun still has as its antecedent the feminine noun “lake,” since agreement in gender between pronoun and antecedent was not always maintained, with an explanatory phrase occurring with a neuter pronoun regardless of the case of the antecedent. In favor of the latter explanation is Rev 20:14, where the phrase “the lake of fire” is in apposition to the phrase “the second death.”

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

¹² tn Here BDAG 552 s.v. κοινός 2 states, “pert. to being of little value because of being common, common, ordinary, profane…b. specifically, of that which is ceremonially impure: Rv 21:27.”

¹³ tn Or “what is abhorrent”; Grk “who practices abominations.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “practicing abomination or falsehood.” Because of the way βδέλυγμα (bdelugma) has been translated (“does what is detestable”) it was necessary to repeat the idea from the participle ποιῶν (poiwn, “practices”) before the term “falsehood.” On this term, BDAG 1097 s.v. ψεῦδος states, “ποιεῖν ψεῦδος practice (the things that go with) falsehood Rv 21:27; 22:15.” Cf. Rev 3:9.

¹⁵ tn Grk “those who are written”; the word “names” is implied.