Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ²  with all your mind and being. ³ 

Deuteronomy 29:18

29:18 Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit. ⁴ 

Job 31:27

31:27 so that my heart was secretly enticed,

and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth, ⁵ 

Isaiah 44:20

44:20 He feeds on ashes; ⁶ 

his deceived mind misleads him.

He cannot rescue himself,

nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ ⁷ 

James 1:26

1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

James 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From James, ⁸  a slave ⁹  of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. ¹⁰  Greetings!

James 5:1

Warning to the Rich

5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud ¹¹  over the miseries that are coming on you.

Revelation 12:9

12:9 So ¹²  that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Revelation 13:14

13:14 and, by the signs he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, he deceived those who live on the earth. He told ¹³  those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword, but still lived.

Revelation 20:4

20:4 Then ¹⁴  I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. ¹⁵  I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These ¹⁶  had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They ¹⁷  came to life ¹⁸  and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[29:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “yielding fruit poisonous and wormwood.” The Hebrew noun לַעֲנָה (la’anah) literally means “wormwood” (so KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB), but is used figuratively for anything extremely bitter, thus here “fruit poisonous and bitter.”

[31:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “and my hand kissed my mouth.” The idea should be that of “my mouth kissed my hand.” H. H. Rowley suggests that the hand was important in waving or throwing the kisses of homage to the sun and the moon, and so it receives the focus. This is the only place in the OT that refers to such a custom. Outside the Bible it was known, however.

[44:20]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “he eats on an ash heap.”

[44:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is it not a lie in my right hand?”

[1:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “James.” The word “From” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ⁹ tn Traditionally, “servant” or “bondservant.” Though δοῦλος (doulos) is normally translated “servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. BDAG notes that “‘servant’ for ‘slave’ is largely confined to Biblical transl. and early American times…in normal usage at the present time the two words are carefully distinguished” (BDAG 260 s.v.). The most accurate translation is “bondservant” (sometimes found in the ASV for δοῦλος), in that it often indicates one who sells himself into slavery to another. But as this is archaic, few today understand its force.

[1:1]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “to the twelve tribes in the Diaspora.” The Greek term διασπορά (diaspora, “dispersion”) refers to Jews not living in Palestine but “dispersed” or scattered among the Gentiles.

[5:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “wail”; Grk “crying aloud.”

[12:9]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the war in heaven.

[13:14]  ¹³ tn Grk “earth, telling.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek.

[20:4]  ¹⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[20:4]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “I saw thrones, and those seated on them, and judgment was given to them.” BDAG 567 s.v. κρίμα 3 says, “judging, judgment, the κρίμα ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς authority to judge was given to them Rv 20:4.”

[20:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “God, and who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “these” as subject.

[20:4]  ¹⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[20:4]  ¹⁸ tn On the use of the aorist ἔζησαν (ezhsan) BDAG 425 s.v. ζάω 1.a.β says, “of dead persons who return to life become alive again: of humans in general (3 Km 17:23) Mt 9:18; Ac 9:41; 20:12; Rv 20:4, 5.”