12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, 1 by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God 2 – which is your reasonable service.
13:1 Brotherly love must continue.
2:5 For he did not put the world to come, 3 about which we are speaking, 4 under the control of angels.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.
2 tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.
3 sn The phrase the world to come means “the coming inhabited earth,” using the Greek term which describes the world of people and their civilizations.
4 sn See the previous reference to the world in Heb 1:6.