1 Corinthians 13:2

13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Matthew 17:19-20

17:19 Then the disciples came ¹  to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?” 17:20 He told them, “It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, ²  if you have faith the size of ³  a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing ⁴  will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 21:21

21:21 Jesus ⁵  answered them, “I tell you the truth, ⁶  if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

Mark 11:22-23

11:22 Jesus said to them, “Have faith in God. 11:23 I tell you the truth, ⁷  if someone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Luke 17:5-6

17:5 The ⁸  apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ⁹  17:6 So ¹⁰  the Lord replied, ¹¹  “If ¹²  you had faith the size of ¹³  a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry ¹⁴  tree, ‘Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,’ ¹⁵  and it would obey ¹⁶  you.

Luke 17:2

17:2 It would be better for him to have a millstone ¹⁷  tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea ¹⁸  than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. ¹⁹ 

Colossians 4:13

4:13 For I can testify that he has worked hard ²⁰  for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

Ephesians 2:8

2:8 For by grace you are saved ²¹  through faith, ²²  and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Hebrews 11:33

11:33 Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, ²³  gained what was promised, ²⁴  shut the mouths of lions,

[17:19]  ¹ tn Grk “coming, the disciples said.” The participle προσελθόντες (proselqontes) has been translated as a finite verb to make the sequence of events clear in English.

[17:20]  ² tn Grk “For truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[17:20]  ³ tn Grk “faith as,” “faith like.”

[17:20]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[21:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “And answering, Jesus said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.

[21:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[11:23]  ⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[17:5]  ⁸ tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[17:5]  ⁹ sn The request of the apostles, “Increase our faith,” is not a request for a gift of faith, but a request to increase the depth of their faith.

[17:6]  ¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.

[17:6]  ¹¹ tn Grk “said.”

[17:6]  ¹² tn This is a mixed condition, with ἄν (an) in the apodosis.

[17:6]  ¹³ tn Grk “faith as,” “faith like.”

[17:6]  ¹⁴ sn A black mulberry tree is a deciduous fruit tree that grows about 20 ft (6 m) tall and has black juicy berries. This tree has an extensive root system, so to pull it up would be a major operation.

[17:6]  ¹⁵ tn The passives here (ἐκριζώθητι and φυτεύθητι, ekrizwqhti and futeuqhti) are probably a circumlocution for God performing the action (the so-called divine passive, see ExSyn 437-38). The issue is not the amount of faith (which in the example is only very tiny), but its presence, which can accomplish impossible things. To cause a tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea is impossible. The expression is a rhetorical idiom. It is like saying a camel can go through the eye of a needle (Luke 18:25).

[17:6]  ¹⁶ tn The verb is aorist, though it looks at a future event, another rhetorical touch to communicate certainty of the effect of faith.

[17:2]  ¹⁷ tn This term refers to the heavy upper stone of a grinding mill (L&N 7.70; BDAG 660 s.v. μυλικός).

[17:2]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “if a millstone were tied…and he were thrown.” The conditional construction in Greek has been translated by English infinitives: “to have… and be thrown.”

[17:2]  ¹⁹ tn Or “to stumble.” This verb, σκανδαλίσῃ (skandalish), has the same root as the noun σκάνδαλον (skandalon) in 17:1, translated “stumbling blocks”; this wordplay is difficult to reproduce in English. It is possible that the primary cause of offense here would be leading disciples (“little ones”) astray in a similar fashion.

[4:13]  ²⁰ tn Grk “pain.” This word appears only three times in the NT outside of this verse (Rev 16:10, 11; 21:4) where the translation “pain” makes sense. For the present verse it has been translated “worked hard.” See BDAG 852 s.v. πόνος 1.

[2:8]  ²¹ tn See note on the same expression in v. 5.

[2:8]  ²² tc The feminine article is found before πίστεως (pistews, “faith”) in the Byzantine text as well as in A Ψ 1881 pc. Perhaps for some scribes the article was intended to imply creedal fidelity as a necessary condition of salvation (“you are saved through the faith”), although elsewhere in the corpus Paulinum the phrase διὰ τῆς πίστεως (dia th" pistew") is used for the act of believing rather than the content of faith (cf. Rom 3:30, 31; Gal 3:14; Eph 3:17; Col 2:12). On the other side, strong representatives of the Alexandrian and Western texts (א B D* F G P 0278 6 33 1739 al bo) lack the article. Hence, both text-critically and exegetically, the meaning of the text here is most likely “saved through faith” as opposed to “saved through the faith.” Regarding the textual problem, the lack of the article is the preferred reading.

[11:33]  ²³ tn This probably refers to the righteous rule of David and others. But it could be more general and mean “did what was righteous.”

[11:33]  ²⁴ tn Grk “obtained promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.