Genesis 12:18-19

12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this ¹  you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ²  to be my wife? ³  Here is your wife! ⁴  Take her and go!” ⁵ 

Genesis 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ⁶  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ⁷  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ⁸ 

Jeremiah 3:1

3:1 “If a man divorces his wife

and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife,

he may not take her back again. ⁹ 

Doing that would utterly defile the land. ¹⁰ 

But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. ¹¹ 

So what makes you think you can return to me?” ¹² 

says the Lord.

Romans 7:2-3

7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ¹³  husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ¹⁴  7:3 So then, ¹⁵  if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her ¹⁶  husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Romans 7:1

The Believer’s Relationship to the Law

7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters ¹⁷  (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person ¹⁸  as long as he lives?

Colossians 1:4

1:4 since ¹⁹  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

Colossians 1:11

1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of ²⁰  all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

[12:18]  ¹ tn The demonstrative pronoun translated “this” adds emphasis: “What in the world have you done to me?” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).

[12:19]  ² tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

[12:19]  ³ tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

[12:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

[12:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “take and go.”

[20:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “came.”

[20:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

[20:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

[3:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “May he go back to her again?” The question is rhetorical and expects a negative answer.

[3:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Would the land not be utterly defiled?” The stative is here rendered actively to connect better with the preceding. The question is rhetorical and expects a positive answer.

[3:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “But you have played the prostitute with many lovers.”

[3:1]  ¹² tn Heb “Returning to me.” The form is the bare infinitive which the KJV and ASV have interpreted as an imperative “Yet, return to me!” However, it is more likely that a question is intended, expressing surprise in the light of the law alluded to and the facts cited. For the use of the infinitive absolute in the place of a finite verb, cf. GKC 346 §113.ee. For the introduction of a question without a question marker, cf. GKC 473 §150.a.

[7:2]  ¹³ tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “husband.”

[7:3]  ¹⁵ tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.

[7:3]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[7:1]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[7:1]  ¹⁸ sn Here person refers to a human being.

[1:4]  ¹⁹ tn The adverbial participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is understood to be temporal and translated with “since.” A causal idea may also be in the apostle’s mind, but the context emphasizes temporal ideas, e.g., “from the day” (v. 6).

[1:11]  ²⁰ tn The expression “for the display of” is an attempt to convey in English the force of the Greek preposition εἰς (eis) in this context.

[1:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.