Psalms 31:8

31:8 You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy;

you enable me to stand ¹  in a wide open place.

Psalms 31:2

31:2 Listen to me! ² 

Quickly deliver me!

Be my protector and refuge, ³ 

a stronghold where I can be safe! ⁴ 

Colossians 4:18

4:18 I, Paul, write this greeting by my own hand. ⁵  Remember my chains. ⁶  Grace be with you. ⁷ 

Hebrews 11:13-15

11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ⁸  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ⁹  on the earth. 11:14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

¹ tn Heb “you cause my feet to stand.”

² tn Heb “turn toward me your ear.”

³ tn Heb “become for me a rocky summit of refuge.”

⁴ tn Heb “a house of strongholds to deliver me.”

⁵ tn Grk “the greeting by my hand, of Paul.”

⁶ tn Or “my imprisonment.”

⁷ tc Most witnesses, including a few important ones (א² D Ψ 075 0278 Ï lat sy), conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”). Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, the external evidence for the omission is quite compelling (א* A B C F G 048 6 33 81 1739* 1881 sa). The strongly preferred reading is therefore the omission of ἀμήν.

⁸ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

⁹ tn Or “sojourners.”