Hebrews 6:17
Context6:17 In the same way 1 God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, 2 and so he intervened with an oath,
Hebrews 10:7
Context10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 3 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 4
Hebrews 11:3
Context11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds 5 were set in order at God’s command, 6 so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. 7


[6:17] 2 tn Or “immutable” (here and in v. 18); Grk “the unchangeableness of his purpose.”
[10:7] 3 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
[10:7] 4 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
[11:3] 5 tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.
[11:3] 6 tn Grk “by God’s word.”
[11:3] 7 sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”