2 Corinthians 11:23-28

11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. 11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ¹  11:25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. ²  Once I received a stoning. ³  Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. 11:26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ⁴  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ⁵  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, 11:27 in hard work and toil, ⁶  through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. ⁷  11:28 Apart from other things, ⁸  there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern ⁹  for all the churches.

Psalms 30:5

30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. ¹⁰ 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 54:8

54:8 In a burst ¹²  of anger I rejected you ¹³  momentarily,

but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,”

says your protector, ¹⁴  the Lord.

Acts 20:23

20:23 except ¹⁵  that the Holy Spirit warns ¹⁶  me in town after town ¹⁷  that ¹⁸  imprisonment ¹⁹  and persecutions ²⁰  are waiting for me.

Romans 8:18

8:18 For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared ²¹  to the glory that will be revealed to us.

Romans 8:34

8:34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ ²²  is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

Romans 8:37

8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory ²³  through him ²⁴  who loved us!

Romans 8:1

The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit

8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ 

Romans 1:6

1:6 You also are among them, ²⁶  called to belong to Jesus Christ. ²⁷ 

Romans 4:7

4:7 “Blessed ²⁸  are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

Romans 4:1

The Illustration of Justification

4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, ²⁹  has discovered regarding this matter? ³⁰ 

Romans 5:10

5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

[11:24]  ¹ tn Grk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.

[11:25]  ² sn Beaten with a rod refers to the Roman punishment of admonitio according to BDAG 902 s.v. ῥαβδίζω. Acts 16:22 describes one of these occasions in Philippi; in this case it was administered by the city magistrates, who had wide powers in a military colony.

[11:25]  ³ sn Received a stoning. See Acts 14:19, where this incident is described.

[11:26]  ⁴ tn Or “bandits.” The word normally refers more to highwaymen (“robbers”) but can also refer to insurrectionists or revolutionaries (“bandits”).

[11:26]  ⁵ tn Or “desert.”

[11:27]  ⁶ tn The two different words for labor are translated “in hard work and toil” by L&N 42.48.

[11:27]  ⁷ tn Grk “in cold and nakedness.” Paul does not mean complete nakedness, however, which would have been repugnant to a Jew; he refers instead to the lack of sufficient clothing, especially in cold weather. A related word is used to 1 Cor 4:11, also in combination with experiencing hunger and thirst.

[11:28]  ⁸ sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.

[11:28]  ⁹ tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.

[30:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

[30:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

[54:8]  ¹² tn According to BDB 1009 s.v. שֶׁטֶף the noun שֶׁצֶף here is an alternate form of שֶׁטֶף (shetef, “flood”). Some relate the word to an alleged Akkadian cognate meaning “strength.”

[54:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “I hid my face from you.”

[54:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[20:23]  ¹⁵ tn BDAG 826 s.v. πλήν 1.d has “πλὴν ὅτι except that…Ac 20:23.”

[20:23]  ¹⁶ tn The verb διαμαρτύρομαι (diamarturomai) can mean “warn” (BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “solemnly urge, exhort, warn…w. dat. of pers. addressed”), and this meaning better fits the context here, although BDAG categorizes Acts 20:23 under the meaning “testify of, bear witness to” (s.v. 1).

[20:23]  ¹⁷ tn The Greek text here reads κατὰ πόλιν (kata polin).

[20:23]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “saying that,” but the participle λέγον (legon) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[20:23]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “bonds.”

[20:23]  ²⁰ tn Or “troubles,” “suffering.” See Acts 19:21; 21:4, 11.

[8:18]  ²¹ tn Grk “are not worthy [to be compared].”

[8:34]  ²² tc ‡ A number of significant and early witnesses, along with several others (Ì^46vid א A C F G L Ψ 6 33 81 104 365 1505 al lat bo), read ᾿Ιησοῦς (Ihsous, “Jesus”) after Χριστός (Cristos, “Christ”) in v. 34. But the shorter reading is not unrepresented (B D 0289 1739 1881 Ï sa). Once ᾿Ιησοῦς got into the text, what scribe would omit it? Although the external evidence is on the side of the longer reading, internally such an expansion seems suspect. The shorter reading is thus preferred. NA²⁷ has the word in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

[8:37]  ²³ tn BDAG 1034 s.v. ὑπερνικάω states, “as a heightened form of νικᾶν prevail completely ὑπερνικῶμεν we are winning a most glorious victory Ro 8:37.”

[8:37]  ²⁴ tn Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.

[8:1]  ²⁵ tc The earliest and best witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texts, as well as a few others (א* B D* F G 6 1506 1739 1881 pc co), have no additional words for v. 1. Later scribes (A D¹ Ψ 81 365 629 pc vg) added the words μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν (mh kata sarka peripatousin, “who do not walk according to the flesh”), while even later ones (א² D² 33^vid Ï) added ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα (alla kata pneuma, “but [who do walk] according to the Spirit”). Both the external evidence and the internal evidence are compelling for the shortest reading. The scribes were evidently motivated to add such qualifications (interpolated from v. 4) to insulate Paul’s gospel from charges that it was characterized too much by grace. The KJV follows the longest reading found in Ï.

[1:6]  ²⁶ tn Grk “among whom you also are called.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. The NIV, with its translation “And you also are among those who are called,” takes the phrase ἐν οἳς ἐστε to refer to the following clause rather than the preceding, so that the addressees of the letter (“you also”) are not connected with “all the Gentiles” mentioned at the end of v. 5. It is more likely, however, that the relative pronoun οἳς has τοῖς ἔθνεσιν as its antecedent, which would indicate that the church at Rome was predominantly Gentile.

[1:6]  ²⁷ tn Grk “called of Jesus Christ.”

[4:7]  ²⁸ tn Or “Happy.”

[4:1]  ²⁹ tn Or “according to natural descent” (BDAG 916 s.v. σάρξ 4).

[4:1]  ³⁰ tn Grk “has found?”