Nehemiah 9:29-30

9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, ¹  will live. They boldly turned from you; ²  they rebelled ³  and did not obey. 9:30 You prolonged your kindness ⁴  with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, ⁵  so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples. ⁶ 

Nehemiah 13:15

13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

Jeremiah 42:19

42:19 “The Lord has told you people who remain in Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be very sure of this: I warn you ⁷  here and now. ⁸ 

Acts 2:40

2:40 With many other words he testified ⁹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ¹⁰  generation!”

Acts 18:5

18:5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived ¹¹  from Macedonia, ¹²  Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming ¹³  the word, testifying ¹⁴  to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. ¹⁵ 

Acts 20:21

20:21 testifying ¹⁶  to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ 

Galatians 5:3

5:3 And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey ¹⁸  the whole law.

Galatians 5:1

Freedom of the Believer

5:1 For freedom ¹⁹  Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke ²⁰  of slavery.

Galatians 4:6

4:6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls ²¹  “Abba! ²²  Father!”

¹ tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

² tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

³ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew expression here is elliptical. The words “your kindness” are not included in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “did not give ear to.”

⁶ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

⁷ tn Heb “Know for certain that I warn you…” The idea of “for certain” is intended to reflect the emphatic use of the infinitive absolute before the volitive use of the imperfect (see IBHS 587-88 §35.3.1h and 509 §31.5b). The substitution “of this:” for “that” has been made to shorten the sentence in conformity with contemporary English style.

⁸ tn Heb “today.”

⁹ tn Or “warned.”

¹⁰ tn Or “crooked” (in a moral or ethical sense). See Luke 3:5.

¹¹ tn Grk “came down.”

¹² sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

¹³ tn BDAG 971 s.v. συνέχω 6 states, “συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ (Paul) was wholly absorbed in preaching Ac 18:5…in contrast to the activity cited in vs. 3.” The imperfect συνείχετο (suneiceto) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect (“became wholly absorbed…”), stressing the change in Paul’s activity once Silas and Timothy arrived. At this point Paul apparently began to work less and preach more.

¹⁴ tn BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “testify of, bear witness to solemnly (orig. under oath)…W. acc. and inf. foll. Ac 18:5.”

¹⁵ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

¹⁶ tn BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 1 has “testify of, bear witness to (orig. under oath)…of repentance to Judeans and Hellenes Ac 20:21.”

¹⁷ tc Several mss, including some of the more important ones (Ì⁷⁴ א Α C [D] E 33 36 323 945 1175 1241 1505 1739 pm and a number of versions), read Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) at the end of this verse. This word is lacking in B H L P Ψ 614 pm. Although the inclusion is supported by many earlier and better mss, internal evidence is on the side of the omission: In Acts, both “Lord Jesus” and “Lord Jesus Christ” occur, though between 16:31 and the end of the book “Lord Jesus Christ” appears only in 28:31, perhaps as a kind of climactic assertion. Thus, the shorter reading is to be preferred.

¹⁸ tn Or “keep”; or “carry out”; Grk “do.”

¹⁹ tn Translating the dative as “For freedom” shows the purpose for Christ setting us free; however, it is also possible to take the phrase in the sense of means or instrument (“with [or by] freedom”), referring to the freedom mentioned in 4:31 and implied throughout the letter.

²⁰ sn Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.

²¹ tn Grk “calling.” The participle is neuter indicating that the Spirit is the one who calls.

²² tn The term “Abba” is the Greek transliteration of the Aramaic אַבָּא (’abba’), literally meaning “my father” but taken over simply as “father,” used in prayer and in the family circle, and later taken over by the early Greek-speaking Christians (BDAG 1 s.v. ἀββα).