Acts 4:29

4:29 And now, Lord, pay attention to ¹  their threats, and grant ²  to your servants ³  to speak your message ⁴  with great courage, ⁵ 

Acts 9:1

The Conversion of Saul

9:1 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats ⁶  to murder ⁷  the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest

Ephesians 6:9

6:9 Masters, ⁸  treat your slaves ⁹  the same way, ¹⁰  giving up the use of threats, ¹¹  because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, ¹²  and there is no favoritism with him.

[4:29]  ¹ tn Or “Lord, take notice of.”

[4:29]  ² sn Grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage. The request is not for a stop to persecution or revenge on the opponents, but for boldness (great courage) to carry out the mission of proclaiming the message of what God is doing through Jesus.

[4:29]  ³ tn Grk “slaves.” See the note on the word “servants” in 2:18.

[4:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “word.”

[4:29]  ⁵ tn Or “with all boldness.”

[9:1]  ⁶ tn Or “Saul, making dire threats.”

[9:1]  ⁷ tn The expression “breathing out threats and murder” is an idiomatic expression for “making threats to murder” (see L&N 33.293). Although the two terms “threats” and “murder” are syntactically coordinate, the second is semantically subordinate to the first. In other words, the content of the threats is to murder the disciples.

[6:9]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[6:9]  ⁹ tn Though the Greek text only has αὐτούς (autous, “them”), the antecedent is the slaves of the masters. Therefore, it was translated this way to make it explicit in English.

[6:9]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “do the same things to them.”

[6:9]  ¹¹ tn Grk “giving up the threat.”

[6:9]  ¹² tn Grk “because of both they and you, the Lord is, in heaven…”