Deuteronomy 31:27

31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ¹  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ² 

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ³  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 4:11

4:11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it ⁴  and yet dark with a thick cloud. ⁵ 

Job 15:16

15:16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, ⁶ 

who drinks in evil like water! ⁷ 

Matthew 7:11

7:11 If you then, although you are evil, ⁸  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ⁹  to those who ask him!

Luke 12:24

12:24 Consider the ravens: ¹⁰  They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds ¹¹  them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Luke 12:28

12:28 And if ¹²  this is how God clothes the wild grass, ¹³  which is here ¹⁴  today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ¹⁵  how much more ¹⁶  will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

Romans 11:12

11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration ¹⁷  bring?

Romans 11:24

11:24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

[31:27]  ¹ tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

[31:27]  ² tn Heb “How much more after my death?” The Hebrew text has a sarcastic rhetorical question here; the translation seeks to bring out the force of the question.

[31:2]  ³ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

[4:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “a mountain burning with fire as far as the heart of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[4:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “darkness, cloud, and heavy cloud.”

[15:16]  ⁶ tn The two descriptions here used are “abominable,” meaning “disgusting” (a Niphal participle with the value of a Latin participle [see GKC 356-57 §116.e]), and “corrupt” (a Niphal participle which occurs only in Pss 14:3 and 53:4), always in a moral sense. On the significance of the first description, see P. Humbert, “Le substantif toáe„ba„ et le verbe táb dans l’Ancien Testament,” ZAW 72 [1960]: 217ff.). On the second word, G. R. Driver suggests from Arabic, “debauched with luxury, corrupt” (“Some Hebrew Words,” JTS 29 [1927/28]: 390-96).

[15:16]  ⁷ sn Man commits evil with the same ease and facility as he drinks in water – freely and in large quantities.

[7:11]  ⁸ tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated concessively.

[7:11]  ⁹ sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.

[12:24]  ¹⁰ tn Or “crows.” Crows and ravens belong to the same family of birds. English uses “crow” as a general word for the family. Palestine has several indigenous members of the crow family.

[12:24]  ¹¹ tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”

[12:28]  ¹² tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

[12:28]  ¹³ tn Grk “grass in the field.”

[12:28]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “which is in the field today.”

[12:28]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

[12:28]  ¹⁶ sn The phrase how much more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.

[11:12]  ¹⁷ tn Or “full inclusion”; Grk “their fullness.”