Isaiah 65:15

65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. ¹ 

The sovereign Lord will kill you,

but he will give his servants another name.

Isaiah 65:1

The Lord Will Distinguish Between Sinners and the Godly

65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ² 

I appeared to those who did not look for me. ³ 

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

to a nation that did not invoke ⁴  my name.

Isaiah 16:13

16:13 This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

Psalms 33:12

33:12 How blessed ⁵  is the nation whose God is the Lord,

the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession. ⁶ 

Mark 13:20

13:20 And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them ⁷  short.

Mark 13:1

The Destruction of the Temple

13:1 Now ⁸  as Jesus ⁹  was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!” ¹⁰ 

Mark 2:9

2:9 Which is easier, ¹¹  to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

Revelation 17:14

17:14 They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying ¹²  the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”

¹ tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”

² tn Heb “I allowed myself to be sought by those who did not ask.”

³ tn Heb “I allowed myself to be found by those who did not seek.”

⁴ tn Heb “call out in”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “call on.”

³ tn The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see Pss 1:1; 2:12; 34:9; 41:1; 65:4; 84:12; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15).

⁴ tn Heb “inheritance.”

⁴ tn Grk “the days.”

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ sn The Jerusalem temple was widely admired around the world. See Josephus, Ant. 15.11 [15.380-425]; J. W. 5.5 [5.184-227] and Tacitus, History 5.8, who called it “immensely opulent.” Josephus compared it to a beautiful snowcapped mountain.

⁶ sn Which is easier is a reflective kind of question. On the one hand to declare sins are forgiven is easier, since one does not need to see it, unlike telling a paralyzed person to walk. On the other hand, it is harder, because for it to be true one must possess the authority to forgive the sin.

⁷ tn See BDAG 636 s.v. μετά A.2.a.α.