Ephesians 4:30

4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Leviticus 25:24-34

25:24 In all your landed property ¹  you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. ² 

25:25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. ³  25:26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers ⁴  and gains enough for its redemption, ⁵  25:27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, ⁶  refund the balance ⁷  to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property. 25:28 If he has not prospered enough to refund ⁸  a balance to him, then what he sold ⁹  will belong to ¹⁰  the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert ¹¹  in the jubilee and the original owner ¹²  may return to his property.

Release of Houses

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, ¹³  its right of redemption must extend ¹⁴  until one full year from its sale; ¹⁵  its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. ¹⁶  25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, ¹⁷  the house in the walled city ¹⁸  will belong without reclaim ¹⁹  to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee. 25:31 The houses of villages, however, ²⁰  which have no wall surrounding them ²¹  must be considered as the field ²²  of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee. 25:32 As for ²³  the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, ²⁴  the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption. 25:33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, ²⁵  because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites. 25:34 Moreover, ²⁶  the open field areas of their cities ²⁷  must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

Psalms 74:2

74:2 Remember your people ²⁸  whom you acquired in ancient times,

whom you rescued ²⁹  so they could be your very own nation, ³⁰ 

as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Psalms 78:54

78:54 He brought them to the border of his holy land,

to this mountainous land ³¹  which his right hand ³²  acquired.

Jeremiah 32:7-8

32:7 ‘Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you soon. He will say to you, “Buy my field at Anathoth because you are entitled ³³  as my closest relative to buy it.”’ ³⁴  32:8 Now it happened just as the Lord had said! My cousin Hanamel ³⁵  came to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse. He said to me, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me.

Luke 21:28

21:28 But when these things ³⁶  begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption ³⁷  is drawing near.”

Acts 20:28

20:28 Watch out for ³⁸  yourselves and for all the flock of which ³⁹  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, ⁴⁰  to shepherd the church of God ⁴¹  that he obtained ⁴²  with the blood of his own Son. ⁴³ 

Romans 8:23

8:23 Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, ⁴⁴  groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, ⁴⁵  the redemption of our bodies. ⁴⁶ 

Romans 8:1

The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit

8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ⁴⁷ 

Romans 2:9

2:9 There will be ⁴⁸  affliction and distress on everyone ⁴⁹  who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, ⁵⁰ 

[25:24]  ¹ tn Heb “And in all the land of your property.”

[25:24]  ² tn Heb “right of redemption you shall give to the land”; NAB “you must permit the land to be redeemed.”

[25:25]  ³ tn Heb “the sale of his brother.”

[25:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “and his hand reaches.”

[25:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he finds as sufficiency of its redemption.”

[25:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he shall calculate its years of sale.”

[25:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “and return the excess.”

[25:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “And if his hand has not found sufficiency of returning.” Although some versions take this to mean that he has not made enough to regain the land (e.g., NASB, NRSV; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176), the combination of terms in Hebrew corresponds to the portion of v. 27 that refers specifically to refunding the money (cf. v. 27; see NIV and G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 315).

[25:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “his sale.”

[25:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will be in the hand of.” This refers to the temporary control of the one who purchased its produce until the next year of jubilee, at which time it would revert to the original owner.

[25:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “it shall go out” (so KJV, ASV; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:28]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the original owner of the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”

[25:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “shall be.”

[25:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “of its sale.”

[25:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:30]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’

[25:30]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (lo’, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.

[25:30]  ¹⁹ tn See the note on v. 23 above.

[25:31]  ²⁰ tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”

[25:31]  ²¹ tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”

[25:31]  ²² tn Heb “on the field.”

[25:32]  ²³ tn Heb “And.”

[25:32]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the houses of the cities of their property.”

[25:33]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And which he shall redeem from the Levites shall go out, sale of house and city, his property in the jubilee.” Although the end of this verse is clear, the first part is notoriously difficult. There are five main views. (1) The first clause of the verse actually attaches to the previous verse, and refers to the fact that their houses retain a perpetual right of redemption (v. 32b), “which any of the Levites may exercise” (v. 33a; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 418, 421). (2) It refers to property that one Levite sells to another Levite, which is then redeemed by still another Levite (v. 33a). In such cases, the property reverts to the original Levite owner in the jubilee year (v. 33b; G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 321). (3) It refers to houses in a city that had come to be declared as a Levitical city but had original non-Levitical owners. Once the city was declared to belong to the Levites, however, an owner could only sell his house to a Levite, and he could only redeem it back from a Levite up until the time of the first jubilee after the city was declared to be a Levitical city. In this case the first part of the verse would be translated, “Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites” (NRSV, NJPS). At the first jubilee, however, all such houses became the property of the Levites (v. 33b; P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 353). (4) It refers to property “which is appropriated from the Levites” (not “redeemed from the Levites,” v. 33a) by those who have bought it or taken it as security for debts owed to them by Levites who had fallen on bad times. Again, such property reverts back to the original Levite owners at the jubilee (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177). (5) It simply refers to the fact that a Levite has the option of redeeming his house (i.e., the prefix form of the verb is taken to be subjunctive, “may or might redeem”), which he had to sell because he had fallen into debt or perhaps even become destitute. Even if he never gained the resources to do so, however, it would still revert to him in the jubilee year. The present translation is intended to reflect this latter view.

[25:34]  ²⁶ tn Heb “And.”

[25:34]  ²⁷ sn This refers to the region of fields just outside and surrounding the city where cattle were kept and garden crops were grown (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177).

[74:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your assembly,” which pictures God’s people as an assembled community.

[74:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “redeemed.” The verb “redeem” casts God in the role of a leader who protects members of his extended family in times of need and crisis (see Ps 19:14).

[74:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the tribe of your inheritance” (see Jer 10:16; 51:19).

[78:54]  ³¹ tn Heb “this mountain.” The whole land of Canaan seems to be referred to here. In Exod 15:17 the promised land is called the “mountain of your [i.e., God’s] inheritance.”

[78:54]  ³² tn The “right hand” here symbolizes God’s military strength (see v. 55).

[32:7]  ³³ tn Heb “your right.” The term מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) here and in v. 8 refers to legal entitlement for the option to purchase a property (BDB 1049 s.v. מִשְׁפָּט 5; cf. Deut 21:17).

[32:7]  ³⁴ sn Underlying this request are the laws of redemption of property spelled out in Lev 25:25-34 and illustrated in Ruth 4:3-4. Under these laws, if a property owner became impoverished and had to sell his land, the nearest male relative had the right and duty to buy it so that it would not pass out of the use of the extended family. The land, however, would not actually belong to Jeremiah because in the year of Jubilee it reverted to its original owner. All Jeremiah was actually buying was the right to use it (Lev 25:13-17). Buying the field, thus, did not make any sense (thus Jeremiah’s complaint in v. 25) other than the fact that the Lord intended to use Jeremiah’s act as a symbol of a restored future in the land.

[32:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “And according to the word of the Lord my cousin Hanamel came to me to the courtyard of the guardhouse and said, ‘…’” The sentence has been broken down to conform better with contemporary English style.

[21:28]  ³⁶ sn These things are all the events of vv. 8-27. Disciples represent the righteous here. The events surrounding the fall of the nation are a down payment on a fuller judgment to come on all humanity. The presence of one guarantees the other.

[21:28]  ³⁷ sn With Jesus’ return comes the manifestation of judgment and final salvation (redemption).

[20:28]  ³⁸ tn Or “Be on your guard for” (cf. v. 29). Paul completed his responsibility to the Ephesians with this warning.

[20:28]  ³⁹ tn Grk “in which.”

[20:28]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “guardians.” BDAG 379-80 s.v. ἐπίσκοπος 2 states, “The term was taken over in Christian communities in ref. to one who served as overseer or supervisor, with special interest in guarding the apostolic tradition…Ac 20:28.” This functional term describes the role of the elders (see v. 17). They were to guard and shepherd the congregation.

[20:28]  ⁴¹ tc The reading “of God” (τοῦ θεοῦ, tou qeou) is found in א B 614 1175 1505 al vg sy; other witnesses have “of the Lord” (τοῦ κυρίου, tou kuriou) here (so Ì⁷⁴ A C* D E Ψ 33 1739 al co), while the majority of the later minuscule mss conflate these two into “of the Lord and God” (τοῦ κυρίου καὶ [τοῦ] θεοῦ, tou kuriou kai [tou] qeou). Although the evidence is evenly balanced between the first two readings, τοῦ θεοῦ is decidedly superior on internal grounds. The final prepositional phrase of this verse, διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ ἰδίου (dia tou {aimato" tou idiou), could be rendered “through his own blood” or “through the blood of his own.” In the latter translation, the object that “own” modifies must be supplied (see tn below for discussion). But this would not be entirely clear to scribes; those who supposed that ἰδίου modified αἵματος would be prone to alter “God” to “Lord” to avoid the inference that God had blood. In a similar way, later scribes would be prone to conflate the two titles, thereby affirming the deity (with the construction τοῦ κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ following the Granville Sharp rule and referring to a single person [see ExSyn 272, 276-77, 290]) and substitutionary atonement of Christ. For these reasons, τοῦ θεοῦ best explains the rise of the other readings and should be considered authentic.

[20:28]  ⁴² tn Or “acquired.”

[20:28]  ⁴³ tn Or “with his own blood”; Grk “with the blood of his own.” The genitive construction could be taken in two ways: (1) as an attributive genitive (second attributive position) meaning “his own blood”; or (2) as a possessive genitive, “with the blood of his own.” In this case the referent is the Son, and the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. See further C. F. DeVine, “The Blood of God,” CBQ 9 (1947): 381-408.

[8:23]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “who have the Spirit as firstfruits.” The genitive πνεύματος (pneumatos) can be understood here as possessive (“the firstfruits belonging to the Spirit”) although it is much more likely that this is a genitive of apposition (“the firstfruits, namely, the Spirit”); cf. TEV, NLT.

[8:23]  ⁴⁵ tn See the note on “adoption” in v. 15.

[8:23]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “body.”

[8:1]  ⁴⁷ tc The earliest and best witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texts, as well as a few others (א* B D* F G 6 1506 1739 1881 pc co), have no additional words for v. 1. Later scribes (A D¹ Ψ 81 365 629 pc vg) added the words μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν (mh kata sarka peripatousin, “who do not walk according to the flesh”), while even later ones (א² D² 33^vid Ï) added ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα (alla kata pneuma, “but [who do walk] according to the Spirit”). Both the external evidence and the internal evidence are compelling for the shortest reading. The scribes were evidently motivated to add such qualifications (interpolated from v. 4) to insulate Paul’s gospel from charges that it was characterized too much by grace. The KJV follows the longest reading found in Ï.

[2:9]  ⁴⁸ tn No verb is expressed in this verse, but the verb “to be” is implied by the Greek construction. Literally “suffering and distress on everyone…”

[2:9]  ⁴⁹ tn Grk “every soul of man.”

[2:9]  ⁵⁰ sn Paul uses the term Greek here and in v. 10 to refer to non-Jews, i.e., Gentiles.