Acts 10:6

10:6 This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, ¹  whose house is by the sea.”

Acts 10:33

10:33 Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. ²  So now we are all here in the presence of God ³  to listen ⁴  to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.” ⁵ 

Acts 11:14

11:14 who will speak a message ⁶  to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’

John 5:24

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁷  the one who hears ⁸  my message ⁹  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ¹⁰  but has crossed over from death to life.

John 6:63

6:63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! ¹¹  The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ¹² 

John 6:68

6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 13:20

13:20 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹³  whoever accepts ¹⁴  the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.” ¹⁵ 

John 17:8

17:8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They ¹⁶  accepted ¹⁷  them ¹⁸  and really ¹⁹  understand ²⁰  that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

John 17:20

Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere

17:20 “I am not praying ²¹  only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe ²²  in me through their testimony, ²³ 

Romans 10:17-18

10:17 Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word ²⁴  of Christ. ²⁵ 

10:18 But I ask, have they ²⁶  not heard? ²⁷  Yes, they have: ²⁸  Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ²⁹ 

Romans 10:2

10:2 For I can testify that they are zealous for God, ³⁰  but their zeal is not in line with the truth. ³¹ 

Colossians 1:18

1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn ³²  from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. ³³ 

Colossians 1:2

1:2 to the saints, the faithful ³⁴  brothers and sisters ³⁵  in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you ³⁶  from God our Father! ³⁷ 

Colossians 3:2

3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

[10:6]  ¹ tn Or “with a certain Simon Berseus.” Although most modern English translations treat βυρσεῖ (bursei) as Simon’s profession (“Simon the tanner”), it is possible that the word is actually Simon’s surname (“Simon Berseus” or “Simon Tanner”). BDAG 185 s.v. βυρσεύς regards it as a surname. See also MM 118.

[10:33]  ² tn Grk “you have done well by coming.” The idiom καλῶς ποιεῖν (kalw" poiein) is translated “be kind enough to do someth.” by BDAG 505-6 s.v. καλῶς 4.a. The participle παραγενόμενος (paragenomeno") has been translated as an English infinitive due to the nature of the English idiom (“kind enough to” + infinitive).

[10:33]  ³ tn The translation “we are here in the presence of God” for ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ πάρεσμεν (enwpion tou qeou paresmen) is given by BDAG 773 s.v. πάρειμι 1.a.

[10:33]  ⁴ tn Or “to hear everything.”

[10:33]  ⁵ tn The words “to say to us” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Cornelius knows Peter is God’s representative, bringing God’s message.

[11:14]  ⁶ tn Grk “words” (ῥήματα, rJhmata), but in this context the overall message is meant rather than the individual words.

[5:24]  ⁷ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[5:24]  ⁸ tn Or “obeys.”

[5:24]  ⁹ tn Or “word.”

[5:24]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and does not come into judgment.”

[6:63]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the flesh counts for nothing.”

[6:63]  ¹² tn Or “are spirit-giving and life-producing.”

[13:20]  ¹³ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[13:20]  ¹⁴ tn Or “receives,” and so throughout this verse.

[13:20]  ¹⁵ sn The one who sent me refers to God.

[17:8]  ¹⁶ tn Grk And they.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:8]  ¹⁷ tn Or “received.”

[17:8]  ¹⁸ tn The word “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[17:8]  ¹⁹ tn Or “truly.”

[17:8]  ²⁰ tn Or have come to know.”

[17:20]  ²¹ tn Or “I do not pray.”

[17:20]  ²² tn Although πιστευόντων (pisteuontwn) is a present participle, it must in context carry futuristic force. The disciples whom Jesus is leaving behind will carry on his ministry and in doing so will see others come to trust in him. This will include not only Jewish Christians, but other Gentile Christians who are “not of this fold” (10:16), and thus Jesus’ prayer for unity is especially appropriate in light of the probability that most of the readers of the Gospel are Gentiles (much as Paul stresses unity between Jewish and Gentile Christians in Eph 2:10-22).

[17:20]  ²³ tn Grk “their word.”

[10:17]  ²⁴ tn The Greek term here is ῥῆμα (rJhma), which often (but not exclusively) focuses on the spoken word.

[10:17]  ²⁵ tc Most mss (א¹ A D¹ Ψ 33 1881 Ï sy) have θεοῦ (qeou) here rather than Χριστοῦ (Cristou; found in Ì^46vid א* B C D* 6 81 629 1506 1739 pc lat co). External evidence strongly favors the reading “Christ” here. Internal evidence is also on its side, for the expression ῥῆμα Χριστοῦ (rJhma Cristou) occurs nowhere else in the NT; thus scribes would be prone to change it to a known expression.

[10:18]  ²⁶ tn That is, Israel (see the following verse).

[10:18]  ²⁷ tn Grk “they have not ‘not heard,’ have they?” This question is difficult to render in English. The basic question is a negative sentence (“Have they not heard?”), but it is preceded by the particle μή (mh) which expects a negative response. The end result in English is a double negative (“They have not ‘not heard,’ have they?”). This has been changed to a positive question in the translation for clarity. See BDAG 646 s.v. μή 3.a.; D. Moo, Romans (NICNT), 666, fn. 32; and C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans (ICC), 537, for discussion.

[10:18]  ²⁸ tn Here the particle μενοῦνγε (menounge) is correcting the negative response expected by the particle μή (mh) in the preceding question. Since the question has been translated positively, the translation was changed here to reflect that rendering.

[10:18]  ²⁹ sn A quotation from Ps 19:4.

[10:2]  ³⁰ tn Grk “they have a zeal for God.”

[10:2]  ³¹ tn Grk “in accord with knowledge.”

[1:18]  ³² tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.

[1:18]  ³³ tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”

[1:2]  ³⁴ tn Grk “and faithful.” The construction in Greek (as well as Paul’s style) suggests that the saints are identical to the faithful; hence, the καί (kai) is best left untranslated (cf. Eph 1:1). See ExSyn 281-82.

[1:2]  ³⁵ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:2]  ³⁶ tn Or “Grace to you and peace.”

[1:2]  ³⁷ tc Most witnesses, including some important ones (א A C F G I [P] 075 Ï it bo), read “and the Lord Jesus Christ” at the end of this verse, no doubt to conform the wording to the typical Pauline salutation. However, excellent and early witnesses (B D K L Ψ 33 81 1175 1505 1739 1881 al sa) lack this phrase. Since the omission is inexplicable as arising from the longer reading (otherwise, these mss would surely have deleted the phrase in the rest of the corpus Paulinum), it is surely authentic.