Matthew 13:22

13:22 The ¹  seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth ²  choke the word, ³  so it produces nothing.

Matthew 24:38-39

24:38 For in those days before the flood, people ⁴  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. ⁵  It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁶ 

Luke 14:18-20

14:18 But one after another they all ⁷  began to make excuses. ⁸  The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, ⁹  and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’ ¹⁰  14:19 Another ¹¹  said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, ¹²  and I am going out ¹³  to examine them. Please excuse me.’ 14:20 Another ¹⁴  said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’ ¹⁵ 

Luke 17:26-32

17:26 Just ¹⁶  as it was ¹⁷  in the days of Noah, ¹⁸  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People ¹⁹  were eating, ²⁰  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ²¹  the flood came and destroyed them all. ²²  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ²³  in the days of Lot, people ²⁴  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ²⁵  17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 17:31 On that day, anyone who is on the roof, ²⁶  with his goods in the house, must not come down ²⁷  to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back. 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife! ²⁸ 

Romans 8:6

8:6 For the outlook ²⁹  of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

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. ³⁰ 

Romans 6:9-10

6:9 We know ³¹  that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die ³²  again; death no longer has mastery over him. 6:10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Romans 6:2

6:2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 3:4

3:4 Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being ³³  shown up as a liar, ³⁴  just as it is written: “so that you will be justified ³⁵  in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” ³⁶ 

Romans 3:1

3:1 Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

Romans 2:15-16

2:15 They ³⁷  show that the work of the law is written ³⁸  in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend ³⁹  them, ⁴⁰  2:16 on the day when God will judge ⁴¹  the secrets of human hearts, ⁴²  according to my gospel ⁴³  through Christ Jesus.

[13:22]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:22]  ² tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

[13:22]  ³ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

[24:38]  ⁴ tn Grk “they,” but in an indefinite sense, “people.”

[24:39]  ⁵ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

[24:39]  ⁶ tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

[14:18]  ⁷ tn Or “all unanimously” (BDAG 107 s.v. ἀπό 6). "One after another" is suggested by L&N 61.2.

[14:18]  ⁸ sn To make excuses and cancel at this point was an insult in the culture of the time. Regardless of customs concerning responses to invitations, refusal at this point was rude.

[14:18]  ⁹ sn I have bought a field. An examination of newly bought land was a common practice. It was this person’s priority.

[14:18]  ¹⁰ sn The expression Please excuse me is probably a polite way of refusing, given the dynamics of the situation, although it is important to note that an initial acceptance had probably been indicated and it was now a bit late for a refusal. The semantic equivalent of the phrase may well be “please accept my apologies.”

[14:19]  ¹¹ tn Grk “And another.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[14:19]  ¹² sn Five yoke of oxen. This was a wealthy man, because the normal farmer had one or two yoke of oxen.

[14:19]  ¹³ tn The translation “going out” for πορεύομαι (poreuomai) is used because “going” in this context could be understood to mean “I am about to” rather than the correct nuance, “I am on my way to.”

[14:20]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “And another.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[14:20]  ¹⁵ sn I just got married, and I cannot come. There is no request to be excused here; just a refusal. Why this disqualifies attendance is not clear. The OT freed a newly married man from certain responsibilities such as serving in the army (Deut 20:7; 24:5), but that would hardly apply to a banquet. The invitation is not respected in any of the three cases.

[17:26]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[17:26]  ¹⁷ tn Or “as it happened.”

[17:26]  ¹⁸ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.

[17:27]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

[17:27]  ²⁰ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

[17:27]  ²¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[17:27]  ²² sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

[17:28]  ²³ tn Or “as it happened.”

[17:28]  ²⁴ tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

[17:29]  ²⁵ sn And destroyed them all. The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT (Gen 19:16-17; Deut 32:32-33; Isa 1:10).

[17:31]  ²⁶ sn Most of the roofs in the NT were flat roofs made of pounded dirt, sometimes mixed with lime or stones, supported by heavy wooden beams. They generally had an easy means of access, either a sturdy wooden ladder or stone stairway, sometimes on the outside of the house.

[17:31]  ²⁷ sn The swiftness and devastation of the judgment will require a swift escape. There is no time to come down from one’s roof and pick up anything from inside one’s home.

[17:32]  ²⁸ sn An allusion to Gen 19:26. The warning about Lot’s wife is not to look back and long to be where one used to be. The world is being judged, and the person who delays or turns back will be destroyed.

[8:6]  ²⁹ tn Or “mindset,” “way of thinking” (twice in this verse and once in v. 7). The Greek term φρόνημα does not refer to one’s mind, but to one’s outlook or mindset.

[8:1]  ³⁰ 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.

[6:9]  ³¹ tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[6:9]  ³² tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).

[3:4]  ³³ tn Grk “every man”; but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to stress humanity rather than masculinity.

[3:4]  ³⁴ tn Grk “Let God be true, and every man a liar.” The words “proven” and “shown up” are supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning.

[3:4]  ³⁵ tn Grk “might be justified,” a subjunctive verb, but in this type of clause it carries the same sense as the future indicative verb in the latter part. “Will” is more idiomatic in contemporary English.

[3:4]  ³⁶ tn Or “prevail when you judge.” A quotation from Ps 51:4.

[2:15]  ³⁷ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[2:15]  ³⁸ tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.

[2:15]  ³⁹ tn Or “excuse.”

[2:15]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”

[2:16]  ⁴¹ tn The form of the Greek word is either present or future, but it is best to translate in future because of the context of future judgment.

[2:16]  ⁴² tn Grk “of people.”

[2:16]  ⁴³ sn On my gospel cf. Rom 16:25; 2 Tim 2:8.