2 Corinthians 6:5

6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, ¹  in troubles, ²  in sleepless nights, in hunger,

Acts 13:2-3

13:2 While they were serving ³  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart ⁴  for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 13:3 Then, after they had fasted ⁵  and ⁶  prayed and placed their hands ⁷  on them, they sent them off.

Acts 14:23

14:23 When they had appointed elders ⁸  for them in the various churches, ⁹  with prayer and fasting ¹⁰  they entrusted them to the protection ¹¹  of the Lord in whom they had believed.

Acts 14:1

Paul and Barnabas at Iconium

14:1 The same thing happened in Iconium ¹²  when Paul and Barnabas ¹³  went into the Jewish synagogue ¹⁴  and spoke in such a way that a large group ¹⁵  of both Jews and Greeks believed.

Colossians 1:5

1:5 Your faith and love have arisen ¹⁶  from the hope laid up ¹⁷  for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel ¹⁸ 

[6:5]  ¹ tn Or “rebellions” (uprisings in open defiance of civil authority).

[6:5]  ² tn Usually κόποις (kopois) has been translated as “labors” or “hard work,” but see Matt 26:10 where it means “trouble”; “distress” (L&N 22.7). In this context with so many other terms denoting suffering and difficulty, such a meaning is preferable.

[13:2]  ³ tn This term is frequently used in the LXX of the service performed by priests and Levites in the tabernacle (Exod 28:35, 43; 29:30; 30:20; 35:19; 39:26; Num 1:50; 3:6, 31) and the temple (2 Chr 31:2; 35:3; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:17, and many more examples). According to BDAG 591 s.v. λειτουργέω 1.b it is used “of other expression of religious devotion.” Since the previous verse described the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch, it is probable that the term here describes two of them (Barnabas and Saul) as they were serving in that capacity. Since they were not in Jerusalem where the temple was located, general religious service is referred to here.

[13:2]  ⁴ tn Or “Appoint.”

[13:3]  ⁵ tn The three aorist participles νηστεύσαντες (nhsteusante"), προσευξάμενοι (proseuxamenoi), and ἐπιθέντες (epiqente") are translated as temporal participles. Although they could indicate contemporaneous time when used with an aorist main verb, logically here they are antecedent. On fasting and prayer, see Matt 6:5, 16; Luke 2:37; 5:33; Acts 14:23.

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Normally English style, which uses a coordinating conjunction between only the last two elements of a series of three or more, would call for omission of “and” here. However, since the terms “fasting and prayer” are something of a unit, often linked together, the conjunction has been retained here.

[13:3]  ⁷ sn The placing of hands on Barnabas and Saul (traditionally known as “the laying on of hands”) refers to an act picturing the commission of God and the church for the task at hand.

[14:23]  ⁸ sn Appointed elders. See Acts 20:17.

[14:23]  ⁹ tn The preposition κατά (kata) is used here in a distributive sense; see BDAG 512 s.v. κατά B.1.d.

[14:23]  ¹⁰ tn Literally with a finite verb (προσευξάμενοι, proseuxamenoi) rather than a noun, “praying with fasting,” but the combination “prayer and fasting” is so familiar in English that it is preferable to use it here.

[14:23]  ¹¹ tn BDAG 772 s.v. παρατίθημι 3.b has “entrust someone to the care or protection of someone” for this phrase. The reference to persecution or suffering in the context (v. 22) suggests “protection” is a better translation here. This looks at God’s ultimate care for the church.

[14:1]  ¹² sn Iconium. See the note in 13:51.

[14:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “they”; the referents (Paul and Barnabas) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:1]  ¹⁴ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:9.

[14:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “that a large crowd.”

[1:5]  ¹⁶ tn Col 1:3-8 form one long sentence in the Greek text and have been divided at the end of v. 4 and v. 6 and within v. 6 for clarity, in keeping with the tendency in contemporary English toward shorter sentences. Thus the phrase “Your faith and love have arisen from the hope” is literally “because of the hope.” The perfect tense “have arisen” was chosen in the English to reflect the fact that the recipients of the letter had acquired this hope at conversion in the past, but that it still remains and motivates them to trust in Christ and to love one another.

[1:5]  ¹⁷ tn BDAG 113 s.v. ἀπόκειμαι 2 renders ἀποκειμένην (apokeimenhn) with the expression “reserved” in this verse.

[1:5]  ¹⁸ tn The term “the gospel” (τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, tou euangeliou) is in apposition to “the word of truth” (τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀληθείας, tw logw th" alhqeia") as indicated in the translation.