Acts 15:4

15:4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received ¹  by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported ²  all the things God had done with them. ³ 

Romans 15:7

Exhortation to Mutual Acceptance

15:7 Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

Hebrews 13:1-3

Final Exhortations

13:1 Brotherly love must continue. 13:2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it. ⁴  13:3 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, ⁵  and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment. ⁶ 

Hebrews 1:7-8

1:7 And he says ⁷  of the angels, “He makes ⁸  his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,” ⁹  1:8 but of ¹⁰  the Son he says, ¹¹ 

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, ¹² 

and a righteous scepter ¹³  is the scepter of your kingdom.

[15:4]  ¹ tn BDAG 761 s.v. παραδέχομαι 2 has “receive, accept” for the meaning here.

[15:4]  ² tn Or “announced.”

[15:4]  ³ tn “They reported all the things God had done with them” – an identical phrase occurs in Acts 14:27. God is always the agent.

[13:2]  ⁴ sn This is a vague allusion to people described in scripture and extra-biblical literature and may include Abraham and Sarah (Gen 18:2-15), Lot (Gen 19:1-14), Gideon (Judg 6:11-18), Manoah (Judg 13:3-22), and possibly Tobit (Tob 12:1-20).

[13:3]  ⁵ tn Grk “as being imprisoned together.”

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Or “since you too are vulnerable”; Grk “you also being in the body.”

[1:7]  ⁷ sn The Greek correlative conjunctions μέν and δέ (men and de) emphasize the contrastive parallelism of vs. 7 (what God says about the angels) over against vv. 8-9 and vv. 10-12 (what God says about the son).

[1:7]  ⁸ tn Grk “He who makes.”

[1:7]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Ps 104:4.

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or “to.”

[1:8]  ¹¹ tn The verb “he says” (λέγει, legei) is implied from the λέγει of v. 7.

[1:8]  ¹² tn Or possibly, “Your throne is God forever and ever.” This translation is quite doubtful, however, since (1) in the context the Son is being contrasted to the angels and is presented as far better than they. The imagery of God being the Son’s throne would seem to be of God being his authority. If so, in what sense could this not be said of the angels? In what sense is the Son thus contrasted with the angels? (2) The μέν…δέ (men…de) construction that connects v. 7 with v. 8 clearly lays out this contrast: “On the one hand, he says of the angels…on the other hand, he says of the Son.” Thus, although it is grammatically possible that θεός (qeos) in v. 8 should be taken as a predicate nominative, the context and the correlative conjunctions are decidedly against it. Hebrews 1:8 is thus a strong affirmation of the deity of Christ.

[1:8]  ¹³ tn Grk “the righteous scepter,” but used generically.