Philippians 1:4

1:4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

Psalms 119:136

119:136 Tears stream down from my eyes, ¹ 

because people ²  do not keep your law.

Jeremiah 9:1

9:1 (8:23) ³  I wish that my head were a well full of water ⁴ 

and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!

If they were, I could cry day and night

for those of my dear people ⁵  who have been killed.

Jeremiah 13:17

13:17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, ⁶ 

I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride.

I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears ⁷ 

because you, the Lord’s flock, ⁸  will be carried ⁹  into exile.”

Luke 19:41

Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment

19:41 Now ¹⁰  when Jesus ¹¹  approached ¹²  and saw the city, he wept over it,

Acts 20:19

20:19 serving the Lord with all humility ¹³  and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots ¹⁴  of the Jews.

Acts 20:30-31

20:30 Even from among your own group ¹⁵  men ¹⁶  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ¹⁷  to draw the disciples away after them. 20:31 Therefore be alert, ¹⁸  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ¹⁹  each one of you with tears.

Romans 9:2

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ²⁰ 

Romans 9:2

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ²¹ 

Colossians 2:4

2:4 I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments ²²  that sound reasonable. ²³ 

Colossians 1:29

1:29 Toward this goal ²⁴  I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully ²⁵  works in me.

[119:136]  ¹ tn Heb “[with] flowing streams my eyes go down.”

[119:136]  ² tn Heb “they”; even though somewhat generic, the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:1]  ³ sn Beginning with 9:1, the verse numbers through 9:26 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:1 ET = 8:23 HT, 9:2 ET = 9:1 HT, 9:3 ET = 9:2 HT, etc., through 9:26 ET = 9:25 HT. Beginning with 10:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “I wish that my head were water.”

[9:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.

[13:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “If you will not listen to it.” For the use of the feminine singular pronoun to refer to the idea(s) expressed in the preceding verse(s), see GKC 440-41 §135.p.

[13:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “Tearing [my eye] will tear and my eye will run down [= flow] with tears.”

[13:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “because the Lord’s flock will…” The pronoun “you” is supplied in the translation to avoid the shift in English from the second person address at the beginning to the third person affirmation at the end. It also helps explain the metaphor of the people of Israel as God’s flock for some readers who may be unfamiliar with that metaphor.

[13:17]  ⁹ tn The verb is once again in the form of “as good as done” (the Hebrew prophetic perfect).

[19:41]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[19:41]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he.”

[19:41]  ¹² sn When Jesus approached and saw the city. This is the last travel note in Luke’s account (the so-called Jerusalem journey), as Jesus approached and saw the city before entering it.

[20:19]  ¹³ sn On humility see 2 Cor 10:1; 11:7; 1 Thess 2:6; Col 3:12; Eph 4:2; Phil 2:3-11.

[20:19]  ¹⁴ sn These plots are mentioned in Acts 9:24; 20:13.

[20:30]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “from among yourselves.”

[20:30]  ¹⁶ tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only rarely is used in a generic sense to refer to both males and females. Since Paul is speaking to the Ephesian elders at this point and there is nothing in the context to suggest women were included in that group (“from among your own group”), it is most likely Paul was not predicting that these false teachers would include women.

[20:30]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “speaking crooked things”; BDAG 237 s.v. διαστρέφω 2 has “λαλεῖν διεστραμμένα teach perversions (of the truth) Ac 20:30.”

[20:31]  ¹⁸ tn Or “be watchful.”

[20:31]  ¹⁹ tn Or “admonishing.”

[9:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

[9:2]  ²¹ tn Grk “my sorrow is great and the anguish in my heart is unceasing.”

[2:4]  ²² tn BDAG 812 s.v. πιθανολογία states, “persuasive speech, art of persuasion (so Pla., Theaet. 162e) in an unfavorable sense in its only occurrence in our lit. ἐν πιθανολογίᾳ by specious arguments Col 2:4 (cp. PLips 40 III, 7 διὰ πιθανολογίας).”

[2:4]  ²³ sn Paul’s point is that even though the arguments seem to make sense (sound reasonable), they are in the end false. Paul is not here arguing against the study of philosophy or serious thinking per se, but is arguing against the uncritical adoption of a philosophy that is at odds with a proper view of Christ and the ethics of the Christian life.

[1:29]  ²⁴ tn The Greek phrase εἴς ὅ (eis Jo, “toward which”) implies “movement toward a goal” and has been rendered by the English phrase “Toward this goal.”

[1:29]  ²⁵ tn The prepositional phrase ἐν δυνάμει (en dunamei) seems to be functioning adverbially, related to the participle, and has therefore been translated “powerfully.”