Psalms 90:17

90:17 May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! ¹ 

Make our endeavors successful!

Yes, make them successful! ² 

Psalms 149:4

149:4 For the Lord takes delight in his people;

he exalts the oppressed by delivering them. ³ 

Isaiah 61:10

61:10 I ⁴  will greatly rejoice ⁵  in the Lord;

I will be overjoyed because of my God. ⁶ 

For he clothes me in garments of deliverance;

he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. ⁷ 

I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would;

I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 16:14

16:14 Your fame ⁹  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ¹⁰ 

Matthew 22:11

22:11 But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

Luke 15:22

15:22 But the father said to his slaves, ¹¹  ‘Hurry! Bring the best robe, ¹²  and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger ¹³  and sandals ¹⁴  on his feet!

Romans 13:14

13:14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires. ¹⁵ 

Romans 13:2

13:2 So the person who resists such authority ¹⁶  resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

Colossians 1:21

Paul’s Goal in Ministry

1:21 And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your ¹⁷  minds ¹⁸  as expressed through ¹⁹  your evil deeds,

Ephesians 5:26

5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her ²⁰  with the washing of the water by the word,

¹ tn Heb “and may the delight of the Master, our God, be on us.” The Hebrew term נֹעַם (no’am, “delight”) is used in Ps 27:4 of the Lord’s “beauty,” but here it seems to refer to his favor (see BDB 653 s.v.) or kindness (HALOT 706 s.v.).

² tn Heb “and the work of our hands establish over us, and the work of our hands, establish it.”

³ tn Heb “he honors the oppressed [with] deliverance.”

⁴ sn The speaker in vv. 10-11 is not identified, but it is likely that the personified nation (or perhaps Zion) responds here to the Lord’s promise of restoration.

⁵ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

⁶ tn Heb “my being is happy in my God”; NAB “in my God is the joy of my soul.”

⁷ tn Heb “robe of vindication”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “robe of righteousness.”

⁸ tn Heb “like a bridegroom [who] acts like a priest [by wearing] a turban, and like a bride [who] wears her jewelry.” The words “I look” are supplied for stylistic reasons and clarification.

⁹ tn Heb “name.”

¹⁰ sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

¹¹ tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:2.

¹² sn With the instructions Hurry! Bring the best robe, there is a total acceptance of the younger son back into the home.

¹³ tn Grk “hand”; but χείρ (ceir) can refer to either the whole hand or any relevant part of it (L&N 8.30).

¹⁴ sn The need for sandals underlines the younger son’s previous destitution, because he was barefoot.

¹⁵ tn Grk “make no provision for the flesh unto desires.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “the authority,” referring to the authority just described.

¹⁷ tn The article τῇ (th) has been translated as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

¹⁸ tn Although διανοία (dianoia) is singular in Greek, the previous plural noun ἐχθρούς (ecqrous) indicates that all those from Colossae are in view here.

¹⁹ tn The dative ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς πονηροῖς (en toi" ergoi" toi" ponhroi") is taken as means, indicating the avenue through which hostility in the mind is revealed and made known.

²⁰ tn The direct object “her” is implied, but not found in the Greek text. It has been supplied in the English translation to clarify the sense of the passage.