Proverbs 10:25

10:25 When the storm ¹  passes through, the wicked are swept away, ² 

but the righteous are an everlasting foundation. ³ 

Psalms 16:8

16:8 I constantly trust in the Lord; ⁴ 

because he is at my right hand, I will not be upended.

Psalms 37:22

37:22 Surely ⁵  those favored by the Lord ⁶  will possess the land,

but those rejected ⁷  by him will be wiped out. ⁸ 

Psalms 37:28-29

37:28 For the Lord promotes ⁹  justice,

and never abandons ¹⁰  his faithful followers.

They are permanently secure, ¹¹ 

but the children ¹²  of evil men are wiped out. ¹³ 

37:29 The godly will possess the land

and will dwell in it permanently.

Psalms 112:6

112:6 For he will never be upended;

others will always remember one who is just. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 125:1

Psalm 125 ¹⁵ 

A song of ascents. ¹⁶ 

125:1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion;

it cannot be upended and will endure forever.

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? ¹⁷  8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹⁸  8:37 No, in all these things we have complete victory ¹⁹  through him ²⁰  who loved us! 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, ²¹  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.

Romans 8:2

8:2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit ²²  in Christ Jesus has set you ²³  free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 1:10-11

1:10 and I always ask ²⁴  in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ²⁵  1:11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift ²⁶  to strengthen you,

[10:25]  ¹ sn The word for “storm wind” comes from the root סוּף (suf, “to come to an end; to cease”). The noun may then describe the kind of storm that makes an end of things, a “whirlwind” (so KJV, NASB; NLT “cyclone”). It is used in prophetic passages that describe swift judgment and destruction.

[10:25]  ² tn Heb “the wicked are not”; ASV, NAB, NASB “is no more.”

[10:25]  ³ tn Heb “a foundation forever”; NLT “have a lasting foundation.”

[16:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “I set the Lord before me continually.” This may mean that the psalmist is aware of the Lord’s presence and sensitive to his moral guidance (see v. 7), or that he trusts in the Lord’s protection (see the following line).

[37:22]  ⁵ tn The particle כִּי is best understood as asseverative or emphatic here.

[37:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “those blessed by him.” The pronoun “him” must refer to the Lord (see vv. 20, 23), so the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “cursed.”

[37:22]  ⁸ tn Or “cut off”; or “removed” (see v. 9).

[37:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the Lord’s commitment to principles of justice causes him to actively promote these principles as he governs the world. The active participle describes characteristic behavior.

[37:28]  ¹⁰ tn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to this generalizing statement.

[37:28]  ¹¹ tn Or “protected forever.”

[37:28]  ¹² tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[37:28]  ¹³ tn Or “cut off”; or “removed.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 28b state general truths.

[112:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for an eternal memorial a just [one] will be.”

[125:1]  ¹⁵ sn Psalm 125. The psalmist affirms his confidence in the Lord’s protection and justice.

[125:1]  ¹⁶ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[8:35]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Ps 44:22.

[8:37]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ tn Here the referent could be either God or Christ, but in v. 39 it is God’s love that is mentioned.

[8:38]  ²¹ 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).

[8:2]  ²² tn Grk “for the law of the Spirit of life.”

[8:2]  ²³ tc Most mss read the first person singular pronoun με (me) here (A D 1739^c 1881 Ï lat sa). The second person singular pronoun σε (se) is superior because of external support (א B {F which reads σαι} G 1506* 1739*) and internal support (it is the harder reading since ch. 7 was narrated in the first person). At the same time, it could have arisen via dittography from the final syllable of the verb preceding it (ἠλευθέρωσεν, hleuqerwsen; “has set free”). But for this to happen in such early and diverse witnesses is unlikely, especially as it depends on various scribes repeatedly overlooking either the nu or the nu-bar at the end of the verb.

[1:10]  ²⁴ tn Grk “remember you, always asking.”

[1:10]  ²⁵ tn Grk “succeed in coming to you in the will of God.”

[1:11]  ²⁶ sn Paul does not mean here that he is going to bestow upon the Roman believers what is commonly known as a “spiritual gift,” that is, a special enabling for service given to believers by the Holy Spirit. Instead, this is either a metonymy of cause for effect (Paul will use his own spiritual gifts to edify the Romans), or it simply means something akin to a blessing or benefit in the spiritual realm. It is possible that Paul uses this phrase to connote specifically the broader purpose of his letter, which is for the Romans to understand his gospel, but this seems less likely.