Isaiah 61:10

61:10 I ¹  will greatly rejoice ²  in the Lord;

I will be overjoyed because of my God. ³ 

For he clothes me in garments of deliverance;

he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. ⁴ 

I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would;

I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry. ⁵ 

Habakkuk 3:17-18

3:17 When ⁶  the fig tree does not bud,

and there are no grapes on the vines;

when the olive trees do not produce, ⁷ 

and the fields yield no crops; ⁸ 

when the sheep disappear ⁹  from the pen,

and there are no cattle in the stalls,

3:18 I will rejoice because of ¹⁰  the Lord;

I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!

John 15:11

15:11 I have told you these things ¹¹  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

John 16:24

16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, ¹²  so that your joy may be complete.

John 16:2

16:2 They will put you out of ¹³  the synagogue, ¹⁴  yet a time ¹⁵  is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. ¹⁶ 

Colossians 1:24

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

Ephesians 3:19

3:19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to ¹⁷  all the fullness of God.

Philippians 1:25-26

1:25 And since I am sure of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for the sake of your progress ¹⁸  and joy in the faith, ¹⁹  1:26 so that what you can be proud of may increase ²⁰  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ²¹ 

Philippians 1:2

1:2 Grace and peace to you ²²  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Philippians 1:12

Ministry as a Prisoner

1:12 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ²³  that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: ²⁴ 

[61:10]  ¹ sn The speaker in vv. 10-11 is not identified, but it is likely that the personified nation (or perhaps Zion) responds here to the Lord’s promise of restoration.

[61:10]  ² tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[61:10]  ³ tn Heb “my being is happy in my God”; NAB “in my God is the joy of my soul.”

[61:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “robe of vindication”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “robe of righteousness.”

[61:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “like a bridegroom [who] acts like a priest [by wearing] a turban, and like a bride [who] wears her jewelry.” The words “I look” are supplied for stylistic reasons and clarification.

[3:17]  ⁶ tn Or “though.”

[3:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “the produce of the olive disappoints.”

[3:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “food.”

[3:17]  ⁹ tn Or “are cut off.”

[3:18]  ¹⁰ tn Or “in.”

[15:11]  ¹¹ tn Grk “These things I have spoken to you.”

[16:24]  ¹² tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[16:2]  ¹³ tn Or “expel you from.”

[16:2]  ¹⁴ sn See the note on synagogue in 6:59.

[16:2]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “an hour.”

[16:2]  ¹⁶ sn Jesus now refers not to the time of his return to the Father, as he has frequently done up to this point, but to the disciples’ time of persecution. They will be excommunicated from Jewish synagogues. There will even be a time when those who kill Jesus’ disciples will think that they are offering service to God by putting the disciples to death. Because of the reference to service offered to God, it is almost certain that Jewish opposition is intended here in both cases rather than Jewish opposition in the first instance (putting the disciples out of synagogues) and Roman opposition in the second (putting the disciples to death). Such opposition materializes later and is recorded in Acts: The stoning of Stephen in 7:58-60 and the slaying of James the brother of John by Herod Agrippa I in Acts 12:2-3 are notable examples.

[3:19]  ¹⁷ tn Or “with.”

[1:25]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “for your progress.”

[1:25]  ¹⁹ sn Paul’s confidence in his release from prison (I know that I will remain and continue with all of you) implies that this Roman imprisonment did not end in his death. Hence, there is the likelihood that he experienced a second Roman imprisonment later on (since the belief of the early church was that Paul died under Nero in Rome). If so, then the pastoral letters (1-2 Tim, Titus) could well fit into a life of Paul that goes beyond any descriptions in the book of Acts (which ends with Paul’s first Roman imprisonment). Some have argued that the pastorals cannot be genuine because they cannot fit into the history of Acts. But this view presupposes that Paul’s first Roman imprisonment was also his last.

[1:26]  ²⁰ tn Grk “your boasting may overflow in Christ Jesus because of me,” or possibly, “your boasting in me may overflow in Christ Jesus.” BDAG 536 s.v. καύχημα 1 translates the phrase τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν (to kauchma jJumwn) in Phil 1:26 as “what you can be proud of.”

[1:26]  ²¹ tn Grk “through my coming again to you.”

[1:2]  ²² tn Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

[1:12]  ²³ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:12]  ²⁴ tn Grk “for the advance of the gospel.” The genitive εὐαγγελίου (euangeliou) is taken as objective.