2 Corinthians 9:2

9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. ¹  I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, ²  that Achaia has been ready to give ³  since last year, and your zeal to participate ⁴  has stirred up most of them. ⁵ 

Psalms 69:9

69:9 Certainly ⁶  zeal for ⁷  your house ⁸  consumes me;

I endure the insults of those who insult you. ⁹ 

Psalms 119:139

119:139 My zeal ¹⁰  consumes ¹¹  me,

for my enemies forget your instructions. ¹² 

John 2:17

2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal ¹³  for your house will devour me.” ¹⁴ 

Acts 17:16

Paul at Athens

17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, ¹⁵  his spirit was greatly upset ¹⁶  because he saw ¹⁷  the city was full of idols.

[9:2]  ¹ tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  ² tn Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”

[9:2]  ³ tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁴ tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁵ sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).

[69:9]  ⁶ tn Or “for.” This verse explains that the psalmist’s suffering is due to his allegiance to God.

[69:9]  ⁷ tn Or “devotion to.”

[69:9]  ⁸ sn God’s house, the temple, here represents by metonymy God himself.

[69:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the insults of those who insult you fall upon me.”

[119:139]  ¹⁰ tn or “zeal.”

[119:139]  ¹¹ tn Heb “destroys,” in a hyperbolic sense.

[119:139]  ¹² tn Heb “your words.”

[2:17]  ¹³ tn Or “Fervent devotion to your house.”

[2:17]  ¹⁴ sn A quotation from Ps 69:9.

[17:16]  ¹⁵ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[17:16]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “greatly upset within him,” but the words “within him” were not included in the translation because they are redundant in English. See L&N 88.189. The term could also be rendered “infuriated.”

[17:16]  ¹⁷ tn Or “when he saw.” The participle θεωροῦντος (qewrounto") has been translated as a causal adverbial participle; it could also be translated as temporal.