Psalms 36:3

36:3 The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful;

he does not care about doing what is wise and right. ¹ 

Psalms 125:5

125:5 As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, ² 

may the Lord remove them, ³  along with those who behave wickedly! ⁴ 

May Israel experience peace! ⁵ 

Isaiah 1:4

1:4 ⁶ The sinful nation is as good as dead, ⁷ 

the people weighed down by evil deeds.

They are offspring who do wrong,

children ⁸  who do wicked things.

They have abandoned the Lord,

and rejected the Holy One of Israel. ⁹ 

They are alienated from him. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 18:24

18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. ¹¹ 

Zephaniah 1:6

1:6 and those who turn their backs on ¹²  the Lord

and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.” ¹³ 

Matthew 12:45

12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so ¹⁴  the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

John 6:66

Peter’s Confession

6:66 After this many of his disciples quit following him ¹⁵  and did not accompany him ¹⁶  any longer.

Hebrews 10:38-39

10:38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I ¹⁷  take no pleasure in him. ¹⁸  10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ¹⁹ 

Hebrews 10:2

10:2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have ²⁰  no further consciousness of sin?

Hebrews 2:18

2:18 For since he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews 2:1

Warning Against Drifting Away

2:1 Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ²¹  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ²²  so that by God’s grace he would experience ²³  death on behalf of everyone.

[36:3]  ¹ tn Heb “he ceases to exhibit wisdom to do good.” The Hiphil forms are exhibitive, indicating the outward expression of an inner attitude.

[125:5]  ² tn Heb “and the ones making their paths twisted.” A sinful lifestyle is compared to a twisting, winding road.

[125:5]  ³ tn Heb “lead them away.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer here (note the prayers directly before and after this). Another option is to translate, “the Lord will remove them” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[125:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the workers of wickedness.”

[125:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “peace [be] upon Israel.” The statement is understood as a prayer (see Ps 122:8 for a similar prayer for peace).

[1:4]  ⁶ sn Having summoned the witnesses and announced the Lord’s accusation against Israel, Isaiah mourns the nation’s impending doom. The third person references to the Lord in the second half of the verse suggest that the quotation from the Lord (cf. vv. 2-3) has concluded.

[1:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “Woe [to the] sinful nation.” The Hebrew term הוֹי, (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death. In highly dramatic fashion the prophet acts out Israel’s funeral in advance, emphasizing that their demise is inevitable if they do not repent soon.

[1:4]  ⁸ tn Or “sons” (NASB). The prophet contrasts four terms of privilege – nation, people, offspring, children – with four terms that depict Israel’s sinful condition in Isaiah’s day – sinful, evil, wrong, wicked (see J. A. Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah, 43).

[1:4]  ⁹ sn Holy One of Israel is one of Isaiah’s favorite divine titles for God. It pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

[1:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they are estranged backward.” The LXX omits this statement, which presents syntactical problems and seems to be outside the synonymous parallelistic structure of the verse.

[18:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “because of them he will die.”

[1:6]  ¹² tn Heb “turn back from [following] after.”

[1:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “who do not seek the Lord and do not inquire of him.” The present translation assumes the first verb refers to praying for divine help and the second to seeking his revealed will through an oracle. Note the usage of the two verbs in 2 Chr 20:3-4.

[12:45]  ¹⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.

[6:66]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “many of his disciples went back to what lay behind.”

[6:66]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “were not walking with him.”

[10:38]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “my soul.”

[10:38]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.

[10:39]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

[10:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “the worshipers, having been purified once for all, would have.”

[2:9]  ²¹ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

[2:9]  ²² tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

[2:9]  ²³ tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).