Psalms 37:37

37:37 Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the godly! ¹ 

For the one who promotes peace has a future. ² 

Jeremiah 29:11

29:11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ³  ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you ⁴  a future filled with hope. ⁵ 

Luke 16:25

16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, ⁶  remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. ⁷ 

Romans 6:21-22

6:21 So what benefit ⁸  did you then reap ⁹  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 6:22 But now, freed ¹⁰  from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit ¹¹  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

¹ tn Or “upright.”

² tn Heb “for [there is] an end for a man of peace.” Some interpret אַחֲרִית (’akharit, “end”) as referring to offspring (see the next verse and Ps 109:13; cf. NEB, NRSV).

³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “I know the plans that I am planning for you, oracle of the Lord, plans of well-being and not for harm to give to you….”

⁵ tn Or “the future you hope for”; Heb “a future and a hope.” This is a good example of hendiadys where two formally coordinated nouns (adjectives, verbs) convey a single idea where one of the terms functions as a qualifier of the other. For this figure see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 658-72. This example is discussed on p. 661.

⁶ tn The Greek term here is τέκνον (teknon), which could be understood as a term of endearment.

⁷ tn Or “in terrible pain” (L&N 24.92). Here is the reversal Jesus mentioned in Luke 6:20-26.

⁸ tn Grk “fruit.”

⁹ tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.

¹⁰ 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….”

¹¹ tn Grk “fruit.”