2 Corinthians 6:11-12

6:11 We have spoken freely to you, ¹  Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide to you. 6:12 Our affection for you is not restricted, ²  but you are restricted in your affections for us.

2 Corinthians 7:3

7:3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before ³  that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you. ⁴ 

2 Corinthians 12:15

12:15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! ⁵  If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Philippians 1:7-8

1:7 For ⁶  it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, ⁷  since both in my imprisonment ⁸  and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace ⁹  together with me. 1:8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 2:17

2:17 Therefore he had ¹⁰  to be made like his brothers and sisters ¹¹  in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement ¹²  for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 4:15

4:15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 9:12

9:12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured ¹³  eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9:24

9:24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation ¹⁴  of the true sanctuary ¹⁵  – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

[6:11]  ¹ tn Grk “our mouth has been open to you,” an idiom for openness in communication.

[6:12]  ² tn Grk “You are not restricted by us.”

[7:3]  ³ sn See 2 Cor 1:4-7.

[7:3]  ⁴ tn The words “with you” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[12:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “souls.”

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Grk “Just as.” The sense here is probably, “So I give thanks (v. 3) just as it is right for me…”

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Or possibly “because you have me in your heart.”

[1:7]  ⁸ tn Grk “in my bonds.” The meaning “imprisonment” derives from a figurative extension of the literal meaning (“bonds,” “fetters,” “chains”), L&N 37.115.

[1:7]  ⁹ tn The word “God’s” is supplied from the context (v. 2) to clarify the meaning.

[2:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or “he was obligated.”

[2:17]  ¹¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[2:17]  ¹² tn Or “propitiation.”

[9:12]  ¹³ tn This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”

[9:24]  ¹⁴ tn Or “prefiguration.”

[9:24]  ¹⁵ tn The word “sanctuary” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.