Luke 8:18

8:18 So listen carefully, ¹  for whoever has will be given more, but ²  whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has ³  will be taken from him.”

Luke 12:20

12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life ⁴  will be demanded back from ⁵  you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ ⁶ 

Luke 12:33

12:33 Sell your possessions ⁷  and give to the poor. ⁸  Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven ⁹  that never decreases, ¹⁰  where no thief approaches and no moth ¹¹  destroys.

Luke 16:2

16:2 So ¹²  he called the manager ¹³  in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? ¹⁴  Turn in the account of your administration, ¹⁵  because you can no longer be my manager.’

Luke 16:25

16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, ¹⁶  remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. ¹⁷ 

John 4:14

4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, ¹⁸  but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain ¹⁹  of water springing up ²⁰  to eternal life.”

John 5:24

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ²¹  the one who hears ²²  my message ²³  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ²⁴  but has crossed over from death to life.

John 10:27-28

10:27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28 I give ²⁵  them eternal life, and they will never perish; ²⁶  no one will snatch ²⁷  them from my hand.

Romans 8:35-39

8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ²⁸  8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ²⁹  8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory ³⁰  through him ³¹  who loved us! 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, ³²  nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Colossians 3:3-4

3:3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 3:4 When Christ (who is your ³³  life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.

Colossians 3:1

Exhortations to Seek the Things Above

3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 1:4-5

1:4 since ³⁴  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints. 1:5 Your faith and love have arisen ³⁵  from the hope laid up ³⁶  for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel ³⁷ 

[8:18]  ¹ tn Or “Therefore pay close attention”; Grk “Take heed therefore how you hear.”

[8:18]  ² tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[8:18]  ³ sn The phrase what he thinks he has is important, because it is not what a person thinks he has that is important but whether he actually has something or not. Jesus describes the person who does not heed his word as having nothing. The person who has nothing loses even that which he thought was something but was not. In other words, he has absolutely nothing at all. Jesus’ teaching must be taken seriously.

[12:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “your soul,” but ψυχή (yuch) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context.

[12:20]  ⁵ tn Or “required back.” This term, ἀπαιτέω (apaitew), has an economic feel to it and is often used of a debt being called in for repayment (BDAG 96 s.v. 1).

[12:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” The words “for yourself” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[12:33]  ⁷ sn The call to sell your possessions is a call to a lack of attachment to the earth and a generosity as a result.

[12:33]  ⁸ tn Grk “give alms,” but this term is not in common use today.

[12:33]  ⁹ tn Grk “in the heavens.”

[12:33]  ¹⁰ tn Or “an unfailing treasure in heaven,” or “an inexhaustible treasure in heaven.”

[12:33]  ¹¹ tn The term σής (shs) refers to moths in general. It is specifically the larvae of moths that destroy clothing by eating holes in it (L&N 4.49; BDAG 922 s.v.). See Jas 5:2, which mentions “moth-eaten” clothing.

[16:2]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the reports the man received about his manager.

[16:2]  ¹³ tn Grk “him”; the referent (the manager) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:2]  ¹⁴ sn Although phrased as a question, the charges were believed by the owner, as his dismissal of the manager implies.

[16:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or “stewardship”; the Greek word οἰκονομία (oikonomia) is cognate with the noun for the manager (οἰκονόμος, oikonomo").

[16:25]  ¹⁶ tn The Greek term here is τέκνον (teknon), which could be understood as a term of endearment.

[16:25]  ¹⁷ tn Or “in terrible pain” (L&N 24.92). Here is the reversal Jesus mentioned in Luke 6:20-26.

[4:14]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “will never be thirsty forever.” The possibility of a later thirst is emphatically denied.

[4:14]  ¹⁹ tn Or “well.” “Fountain” is used as the translation for πηγή (phgh) here since the idea is that of an artesian well that flows freely, but the term “artesian well” is not common in contemporary English.

[4:14]  ²⁰ tn The verb ἁλλομένου (Jallomenou) is used of quick movement (like jumping) on the part of living beings. This is the only instance of its being applied to the action of water. However, in the LXX it is used to describe the “Spirit of God” as it falls on Samson and Saul. See Judg 14:6, 19; 15:14; 1 Kgdms 10:2, 10 LXX (= 1 Sam 10:6, 10 ET); and Isa 35:6 (note context).

[5:24]  ²¹ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[5:24]  ²² tn Or “obeys.”

[5:24]  ²³ tn Or “word.”

[5:24]  ²⁴ tn Grk “and does not come into judgment.”

[10:28]  ²⁵ tn Grk “And I give.”

[10:28]  ²⁶ tn Or “will never die” or “will never be lost.”

[10:28]  ²⁷ tn Or “no one will seize.”

[8:35]  ²⁸ tn Here “sword” is a metonymy that includes both threats of violence and acts of violence, even including death (although death is not necessarily the only thing in view here).

[8:36]  ²⁹ sn A quotation from Ps 44:22.

[8:37]  ³⁰ tn BDAG 1034 s.v. ὑπερνικάω states, “as a heightened form of νικᾶν prevail completely ὑπερνικῶμεν we are winning a most glorious victory Ro 8:37.”

[8:37]  ³¹ tn Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.

[8:38]  ³² tn BDAG 138 s.v. ἀρχή 6 takes this term as a reference to angelic or transcendent powers (as opposed to merely human rulers). To clarify this, the adjective “heavenly” has been supplied in the translation. Some interpreters see this as a reference to fallen angels or demonic powers, and this view is reflected in some recent translations (NIV, NLT).

[3:4]  ³³ tc Certain mss (B^[*^] D¹ H 0278 1739 Ï sy sa) read ἡμῶν (Jhmwn, “our”), while others (Ì⁴⁶ א C D* F G P Ψ 075 33 81 1881 al latt bo) read ὑμῶν (Jumwn, “your”). Internally, it is possible that the second person pronoun arose through scribal conformity to the second person pronoun used previously in v. 3 (i.e., ὑμῶν) and following in v. 4 (ὑμεῖς, Jumeis). But in terms of external criteria, the second person pronoun has superior ms support (though there is an Alexandrian split) and ἡμῶν may have arisen through accident (error of sight) or scribal attempt to universalize the statement since all Christians have Jesus as their life. See TCGNT 557.

[1:4]  ³⁴ 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).

[1:5]  ³⁵ tn Col 1:3-8 form one long sentence in the Greek text and have been divided at the end of v. 4 and v. 6 and within v. 6 for clarity, in keeping with the tendency in contemporary English toward shorter sentences. Thus the phrase “Your faith and love have arisen from the hope” is literally “because of the hope.” The perfect tense “have arisen” was chosen in the English to reflect the fact that the recipients of the letter had acquired this hope at conversion in the past, but that it still remains and motivates them to trust in Christ and to love one another.

[1:5]  ³⁶ tn BDAG 113 s.v. ἀπόκειμαι 2 renders ἀποκειμένην (apokeimenhn) with the expression “reserved” in this verse.

[1:5]  ³⁷ tn The term “the gospel” (τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, tou euangeliou) is in apposition to “the word of truth” (τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀληθείας, tw logw th" alhqeia") as indicated in the translation.