Psalms 103:17

103:17 But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, ¹ 

and is faithful to their descendants, ² 

Isaiah 45:17

45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; ³ 

you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. ⁴ 

Isaiah 54:8-9

54:8 In a burst ⁵  of anger I rejected you ⁶  momentarily,

but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,”

says your protector, ⁷  the Lord.

54:9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, ⁸ 

when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood ⁹  would never again cover the earth.

In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

Romans 11:28-29

11:28 In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers. 11:29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Romans 11:2

11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 2:13-16

2:13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. ¹⁰  2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, ¹¹  who do not have the law, do by nature ¹²  the things required by the law, ¹³  these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 2:15 They ¹⁴  show that the work of the law is written ¹⁵  in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend ¹⁶  them, ¹⁷  2:16 on the day when God will judge ¹⁸  the secrets of human hearts, ¹⁹  according to my gospel ²⁰  through Christ Jesus.

Romans 2:2

2:2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth ²¹  against those who practice such things.

Romans 1:9

1:9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel ²²  of his Son, is my witness that ²³  I continually remember you

[103:17]  ¹ tn Heb “but the loyal love of the Lord [is] from everlasting to everlasting over those who fear him.”

[103:17]  ² tn Heb “and his righteousness to sons of sons.”

[45:17]  ³ tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”

[45:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”

[54:8]  ⁵ tn According to BDB 1009 s.v. שֶׁטֶף the noun שֶׁצֶף here is an alternate form of שֶׁטֶף (shetef, “flood”). Some relate the word to an alleged Akkadian cognate meaning “strength.”

[54:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “I hid my face from you.”

[54:8]  ⁷ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[54:9]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “For [or “indeed”] the waters of Noah [is] this to me.” כִּי־מֵי (ki-me, “for the waters of”) should be emended to כְּמֵי (kÿmey, “like the days of”), which is supported by the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a and all the ancient versions except LXX.

[54:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the waters of Noah” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[2:13]  ¹⁰ tn The Greek sentence expresses this contrast more succinctly than is possible in English. Grk “For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.”

[2:14]  ¹¹ sn Gentile is a NT term for a non-Jew.

[2:14]  ¹² tn Some (e.g. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:135-37) take the phrase φύσει (fusei, “by nature”) to go with the preceding “do not have the law,” thus: “the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature,” that is, by virtue of not being born Jewish.

[2:14]  ¹³ tn Grk “do by nature the things of the law.”

[2:15]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “show the work of the law [to be] written,” with the words in brackets implied by the Greek construction.

[2:15]  ¹⁶ tn Or “excuse.”

[2:15]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “their conscience bearing witness and between the thoughts accusing or also defending one another.”

[2:16]  ¹⁸ 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]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “of people.”

[2:16]  ²⁰ sn On my gospel cf. Rom 16:25; 2 Tim 2:8.

[2:2]  ²¹ tn Or “based on truth.”

[1:9]  ²² tn Grk “whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel.”

[1:9]  ²³ tn Grk “as.”