Psalms 119:32

119:32 I run along the path of your commands,

for you enable me to do so. ¹ 

Psalms 119:36

119:36 Give me a desire for your rules, ² 

rather than for wealth gained unjustly. ³ 

Psalms 119:44-45

119:44 Then I will keep ⁴  your law continually

now and for all time. ⁵ 

119:45 I will be secure, ⁶ 

for I seek your precepts.

Psalms 119:131

119:131 I open my mouth and pant,

because I long ⁷  for your commands.

Psalms 119:159

119:159 See how I love your precepts!

O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

Psalms 119:173

119:173 May your hand help me,

for I choose to obey ⁸  your precepts.

Psalms 51:10

51:10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! ⁹ 

Renew a resolute spirit within me! ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 31:33

31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel ¹¹  after I plant them back in the land,” ¹²  says the Lord. ¹³  “I will ¹⁴  put my law within them ¹⁵  and write it on their hearts and minds. ¹⁶  I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹⁷ 

Romans 7:22-24

7:22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. 7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Romans 7:2

7:2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her ¹⁸  husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. ¹⁹ 

Romans 3:5

3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates ²⁰  the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? ²¹  (I am speaking in human terms.) ²² 

Hebrews 13:21

13:21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us ²³  what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. ²⁴  Amen.

[119:32]  ¹ tn Heb “for you make wide my heart.” The “heart” is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s volition and understanding. The Lord gives the psalmist the desire and moral understanding that are foundational to the willing obedience depicted metaphorically in the preceding line. In Isa 60:5 the expression “your heart will be wide” means “your heart will swell with pride,” but here the nuance appears to be different.

[119:36]  ² tn Heb “turn my heart to your rules.”

[119:36]  ³ tn Heb “and not unjust gain.”

[119:44]  ⁴ tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).

[119:44]  ⁵ tn Or “forever and ever.”

[119:45]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I will walk about in a wide place.” The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive gives a further consequence of the anticipated positive divine response (see vv. 43-44). Another option is to take the cohortative as expressing the psalmist’s request. In this case one could translate, “and please give me security.”

[119:131]  ⁷ tn The verb occurs only here in the OT.

[119:173]  ⁸ tn The words “to obey” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.

[51:10]  ⁹ sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s motives and moral character.

[51:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and a reliable spirit renew in my inner being.”

[31:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “with the house of Israel.” All commentators agree that the term here refers to both the whole nation which was divided into the house of Israel and the house of Judah in v. 30.

[31:33]  ¹² tn Heb “after those days.” Commentators are generally agreed that this refers to the return from exile and the repopulation of the land referred to in vv. 27-28 and not to something subsequent to the time mentioned in v. 30. This is the sequencing that is also presupposed in other new covenant passages such as Deut 30:1-6; Ezek 11:17-20; 36:24-28.

[31:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:33]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “‘But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days:’ says the Lord, ‘I will….’” The sentence has been reworded and restructured to avoid the awkwardness of the original style.

[31:33]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in their inward parts.” The Hebrew word here refers to the seat of the thoughts, emotions, and decisions (Jer 9:8 [9:7 HT]). It is essentially synonymous with “heart” in Hebrew psychological terms.

[31:33]  ¹⁶ tn The words “and minds” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to bring the English psychology more into line with the Hebrew where the “heart” is the center both of knowing/thinking/reflecting and deciding/willing.

[31:33]  ¹⁷ sn Compare Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and see the study note on 30:2.

[7:2]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[7:2]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “husband.”

[3:5]  ²⁰ tn Or “shows clearly.”

[3:5]  ²¹ tn Grk “That God is not unjust to inflict wrath, is he?”

[3:5]  ²² sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.

[13:21]  ²³ tc Some mss (C P Ψ 6 629* 630 1505 pm latt sy^h) read ὑμῖν (Jumin, “in you”) here, but ἡμῖν (Jhmin) has stronger external support (Ì⁴⁶ א A D^vid K 0243 0285 33 81 104 326 365 629^c 1175 1739 1881 pm sy^p co). It is also more likely that ἡμῖν would have been changed to ὑμῖν in light of the “you” which occurs at the beginning of the verse than vice versa.

[13:21]  ²⁴ tc ‡ Most mss (א A [C*] 0243 0285 33 1739 1881 Ï latt) include the words “and ever” here, but the shorter reading (supported by Ì⁴⁶ C³ D Ψ 6 104 365 1505 al) is preferred on internal grounds. It seemed more likely that scribes would assimilate the wording to the common NT doxological expression “for ever and ever,” found especially in the Apocalypse (cf., e.g., 1 Tim 1:17; 2 Tim 4:18; Rev 4:9; 22:5) than to the “forever” of Heb 13:8. Nevertheless, a decision is difficult here. NA²⁷ places the phrase in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.