Psalms 109:13-14

109:13 May his descendants ¹  be cut off! ² 

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ³ 

109:14 May his ancestors’ ⁴  sins be remembered by the Lord!

May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! ⁵ 

Philippians 4:3

4:3 Yes, I say also to you, true companion, ⁶  help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry ⁷  along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

Revelation 13:8

13:8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, ⁸  everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world ⁹  in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed. ¹⁰ 

Revelation 20:12

20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then ¹¹  books were opened, and another book was opened – the book of life. ¹²  So ¹³  the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. ¹⁴ 

[109:13]  ¹ tn Or “offspring.”

[109:13]  ² sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

[109:13]  ³ tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”

[109:14]  ⁴ tn Or “fathers’ sins.”

[109:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “not be wiped out.”

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Or “faithful fellow worker.” This is more likely a descriptive noun, although some scholars interpret the word σύζυγος (suzugos) here as a proper name (“Syzygos”), L&N 42.45.

[4:3]  ⁷ tn Grk “in the gospel,” a metonymy in which the gospel itself is substituted for the ministry of making the gospel known.

[13:8]  ⁸ tn Grk “it”; the referent (the beast) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:8]  ⁹ tn The prepositional phrase “since the foundation of the world” is traditionally translated as a modifier of the immediately preceding phrase in the Greek text, “the Lamb who was killed” (so also G. B. Caird, Revelation [HNTC], 168), but it is more likely that the phrase “since the foundation of the world” modifies the verb “written” (as translated above). Confirmation of this can be found in Rev 17:8 where the phrase “written in the book of life since the foundation of the world” occurs with no ambiguity.

[13:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or “slaughtered”; traditionally, “slain.”

[20:12]  ¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[20:12]  ¹² tn Grk “another book was opened, which is of life.”

[20:12]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the books being opened.

[20:12]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “from the things written in the books according to their works.”