Acts 2:39

2:39 For the promise ¹  is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Acts 16:15

16:15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, ²  “If ³  you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, ⁴  come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded ⁵  us.

Acts 16:31

16:31 They replied, ⁶  “Believe ⁷  in the Lord Jesus ⁸  and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Genesis 17:7

17:7 I will confirm ⁹  my covenant as a perpetual ¹⁰  covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ¹¹ 

Genesis 18:19

18:19 I have chosen him ¹²  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep ¹³  the way of the Lord by doing ¹⁴  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give ¹⁵  to Abraham what he promised ¹⁶  him.”

Psalms 103:17

103:17 But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, ¹⁷ 

and is faithful to their descendants, ¹⁸ 

Psalms 112:2

112:2 His descendants ¹⁹  will be powerful on the earth;

the godly ²⁰  will be blessed.

Psalms 115:13-14

115:13 He will bless his loyal followers, ²¹ 

both young and old. ²² 

115:14 May he increase your numbers,

yours and your children’s! ²³ 

Proverbs 20:7

20:7 The righteous person ²⁴  behaves in integrity; ²⁵ 

blessed are his children after him. ²⁶ 

Isaiah 61:8-9

61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice

and hate robbery and sin.

I will repay them because of my faithfulness; ²⁷ 

I will make a permanent covenant with them.

61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,

their offspring among the peoples.

All who see them will recognize that

the Lord has blessed them.” ²⁸ 

Jeremiah 32:39

32:39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for ²⁹  their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.

Luke 19:10

19:10 For the Son of Man came ³⁰  to seek and to save the lost.”

[2:39]  ¹ sn The promise refers to the promise of the Holy Spirit that Jesus received from the Father in 2:33 and which he now pours out on others. The promise consists of the Holy Spirit (see note in 2:33). Jesus is the active mediator of God’s blessing.

[16:15]  ² tn Grk “urged us, saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[16:15]  ³ tn This is a first class condition in Greek, with the statement presented as real or true for the sake of the argument.

[16:15]  ⁴ tn Or “faithful to the Lord.” BDAG 821 s.v. πίστος 2 states concerning this verse, “Of one who confesses the Christian faith believing or a believer in the Lord, in Christ, in God πιστ. τῷ κυρίῳ Ac 16:15.” L&N 11.17 has “one who is included among the faithful followers of Christ – ‘believer, Christian, follower.’”

[16:15]  ⁵ tn Although BDAG 759 s.v. παραβιάζομαι has “urge strongly, prevail upon,” in contemporary English “persuade” is a more frequently used synonym for “prevail upon.”

[16:31]  ⁶ tn Grk “said.”

[16:31]  ⁷ sn Here the summary term of response is a call to believe. In this context it refers to trusting the sovereign God’s power to deliver, which events had just pictured for the jailer.

[16:31]  ⁸ tc The majority of mss add Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) here (C D E Ψ 1739 Ï sy sa), but the best and earliest witnesses read simply τὸν κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton kurion Ihsoun, “the Lord Jesus”; Ì^74vid א A B 33 81 pc bo). The addition of “Christ” to “Lord Jesus” is an obviously motivated reading. Thus on both external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred.

[17:7]  ⁹ tn The verb קוּם (qum, “to arise, to stand up”) in the Hiphil verbal stem means “to confirm, to give effect to, to carry out” (i.e., a covenant or oath; see BDB 878-79 s.v. קוּם).

[17:7]  ¹⁰ tn Or “as an eternal.”

[17:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”

[18:19]  ¹² tn Heb “For I have known him.” The verb יָדַע (yada’) here means “to recognize and treat in a special manner, to choose” (see Amos 3:2). It indicates that Abraham stood in a special covenantal relationship with the Lord.

[18:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they will keep.” The perfect verbal form with vav consecutive carries on the subjective nuance of the preceding imperfect verbal form (translated “so that he may command”).

[18:19]  ¹⁴ tn The infinitive construct here indicates manner, explaining how Abraham’s children and his household will keep the way of the Lord.

[18:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “bring on.” The infinitive after לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) indicates result here.

[18:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “spoke to.”

[103:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “but the loyal love of the Lord [is] from everlasting to everlasting over those who fear him.”

[103:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and his righteousness to sons of sons.”

[112:2]  ¹⁹ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[112:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “His seed will be mighty on the earth, the generation of the godly.” The Hebrew term דוֹר (dor, “generation”) could be taken as parallel to “offspring” and translated “posterity,” but the singular more likely refers to the godly as a class. See BDB 189-90 s.v. for other examples where “generation” refers to a class of people.

[115:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “the fearers of the Lord.”

[115:13]  ²² tn Heb “the small along with the great.” The translation assumes that “small” and “great” here refer to age (see 2 Chr 15:13). Another option is to translate “both the insignificant and the prominent” (see Job 3:19; cf. NEB “high and low alike”).

[115:14]  ²³ tn Heb “may he add to you, to you and your sons.” The prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating this is a prayer.

[20:7]  ²⁴ sn Two terms describe the subject of this proverb: “righteous” and “integrity.” The first describes the person as a member of the covenant community who strives to live according to God’s standards; the second emphasizes that his lifestyle is blameless.

[20:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walks in his integrity” (so NASB); cf. NIV “leads a blameless life.” The Hitpael participle of הָלַךְ (halakh) means “to walk about; to walk to and fro.” The idiom of walking representing living is intensified here in this stem. This verbal stem is used in scripture to describe people “walking with” God.

[20:7]  ²⁶ sn The nature and the actions of parents have an effect on children (e.g., Exod 20:4-6); if the parents are righteous, the children will enjoy a blessing – the respect and the happiness which the parent reflects on them.

[61:8]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in faithfulness”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “faithfully.”

[61:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “all who see them will recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] the Lord has blessed.”

[32:39]  ²⁹ tn Heb “I will give to them one heart and one way to [= in order that they may] fear me all the days for good to them.” The phrase “one heart” refers both to unanimity of will and accord (cf. 1 Chr 12:38 [12:39 HT]; 2 Chr 30:12) and to singleness of purpose or intent (cf. Ezek 11:19 and see BDB 525 s.v. ֵלב 4 where reference is made to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will”). The phrase “one way” refers to one way of life or conduct (cf. BDB 203 s.v. דֶּרֶךְ 6.a where reference is made to moral action and character), a way of life that is further qualified by the goal of showing “fear, reverence, respect” for the Lord. The Hebrew sentence has been broken up to avoid a long complex sentence in English which is contrary to contemporary English style. However, an attempt has been made to preserve all the connections of the original.

[19:10]  ³⁰ sn The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost is Jesus’ mission succinctly defined. See Luke 15:1-32.