1:74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our 1 enemies,
may serve him without fear, 2
2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem 8 again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.
1:1 From Paul, 10 an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)
1 tc Many important early
2 tn This phrase in Greek is actually thrown forward to the front of the verse to give it emphasis.
3 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
4 tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”
5 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
6 tn The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God….”
7 tn Grk “fruit.”
8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
9 tn See the note on this phrase in the previous verse.
10 tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.
11 tn The Greek term translated “guardians” here is ἐπίτροπος (epitropo"), whose semantic domain overlaps with that of παιδαγωγός (paidagwgo") according to L&N 36.5.
12 tn Grk “the,” but the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).