Proverbs 14:2

14:2 The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, ¹ 

but the one who is perverted in his ways ²  despises him.

Mark 5:40

5:40 And they began making fun of him. ³  But he put them all outside ⁴  and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions ⁵  and went into the room where the child was. ⁶ 

Luke 16:14

More Warnings about the Pharisees

16:14 The Pharisees ⁷  (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed ⁸  him.

Acts 17:32

17:32 Now when they heard about ⁹  the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, ¹⁰  but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

¹ tn Heb “fear of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) functions as an objective genitive.

² tn Heb “crooked of ways”; NRSV “devious in conduct.” This construct phrase features a genitive of specification: “crooked in reference to his ways.” The term “ways” is an idiom for moral conduct. The evidence that people fear the Lord is uprightness; the evidence of those who despise him is the devious ways.

³ tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

⁴ tn Or “threw them all outside.” The verb used, ἐκβάλλω (ekballw), almost always has the connotation of force in Mark.

⁵ tn Grk “those with him.”

⁶ tn Grk “into where the child was.”

⁷ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

⁸ tn A figurative extension of the literal meaning “to turn one’s nose up at someone”; here “ridicule, sneer at, show contempt for” (L&N 33.409).

⁹ tn The participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") has been taken temporally.

¹⁰ tn L&N 33.408 has “some scoffed (at him) Ac 17:32” for ἐχλεύαζον (ecleuazon) here; the imperfect verb has been translated as an ingressive imperfect (“began to scoff”).