Proverbs 8:14

8:14 Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; ¹ 

I possess understanding and might.

Romans 2:20

2:20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

Romans 6:17

6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed ²  from the heart that pattern ³  of teaching you were entrusted to,

Romans 6:1

The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination

6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

Romans 1:10

1:10 and I always ask ⁴  in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ⁵ 

Romans 6:3

6:3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Titus 2:1

Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching

2:1 But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with ⁶  sound teaching.

Titus 2:8

2:8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ⁷  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

¹ tc In the second half of v. 14 instead of אֲנִי (’ani) the editors propose reading simply לִי (li) as the renderings in the LXX, Latin, and Syriac suggest. Then, in place of the לִי that comes in the same colon, read וְלִי (vÿli). While the MT is a difficult reading, it can be translated as it is. It would be difficult to know exactly what the ancient versions were reading, because their translations could have been derived from either text. They represent an effort to smooth out the text.

² tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”

³ tn Or “type, form.”

⁴ tn Grk “remember you, always asking.”

⁵ tn Grk “succeed in coming to you in the will of God.”

⁶ tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.).

⁷ tn Or “put to shame.”