Psalms 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ¹ 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Psalms 119:110

119:110 The wicked lay a trap for me,

but I do not wander from your precepts.

Psalms 44:17

44:17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you ² 

or violated your covenant with us. ³ 

Job 17:9

17:9 But the righteous man holds to his way,

and the one with clean hands grows stronger. ⁴ 

Job 23:11

23:11 My feet ⁵  have followed ⁶  his steps closely;

I have kept to his way and have not turned aside. ⁷ 

Isaiah 42:4

42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed ⁸ 

before establishing justice on the earth;

the coastlands ⁹  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ¹⁰ 

Acts 20:23-24

20:23 except ¹¹  that the Holy Spirit warns ¹²  me in town after town ¹³  that ¹⁴  imprisonment ¹⁵  and persecutions ¹⁶  are waiting for me. 20:24 But I do not consider my life ¹⁷  worth anything ¹⁸  to myself, so that ¹⁹  I may finish my task ²⁰  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news ²¹  of God’s grace.

Acts 20:1

Paul Travels Through Macedonia and Greece

20:1 After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging ²²  them and saying farewell, ²³  he left to go to Macedonia. ²⁴ 

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²⁵  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

[119:51]  ¹ tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”

[44:17]  ² tn Heb “we have not forgotten you.” To “forget” God refers here to worshiping false gods and thereby refusing to recognize his sovereignty (see v. 20, as well as Deut 8:19; Judg 3:7; 1 Sam 12:9; Isa 17:10; Jer 3:21; Ps 9:17).Thus the translation “we have not rejected you” has been used.

[44:17]  ³ tn Heb “and we did not deal falsely with your covenant.”

[17:9]  ⁴ tn The last two words are the imperfect verb יֹסִיף (yosif) which means “he adds,” and the abstract noun “energy, strength.” This noun is not found elsewhere; its Piel verb occurs in Job 4:4 and 16:5. “he increases strength.”

[23:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “my foot.”

[23:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “held fast.”

[23:11]  ⁷ tn The last clause, “and I have not turned aside,” functions adverbially in the sentence. The form אָט (’at) is a pausal form of אַתֶּה (’atteh), the Hiphil of נָטָה (natah, “stretch out”).

[42:4]  ⁸ tn For rhetorical effect the terms used to describe the “crushed (רָצַץ, ratsats) reed” and “dim (כָּהָה, kahah) wick” in v. 3 are repeated here.

[42:4]  ⁹ tn Or “islands” (NIV); NLT “distant lands beyond the sea.”

[42:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “his law” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV) or “his instruction” (NLT).

[20:23]  ¹¹ tn BDAG 826 s.v. πλήν 1.d has “πλὴν ὅτι except that…Ac 20:23.”

[20:23]  ¹² tn The verb διαμαρτύρομαι (diamarturomai) can mean “warn” (BDAG 233 s.v. διαμαρτύρομαι 2 has “solemnly urge, exhort, warn…w. dat. of pers. addressed”), and this meaning better fits the context here, although BDAG categorizes Acts 20:23 under the meaning “testify of, bear witness to” (s.v. 1).

[20:23]  ¹³ tn The Greek text here reads κατὰ πόλιν (kata polin).

[20:23]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “saying that,” but the participle λέγον (legon) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[20:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “bonds.”

[20:23]  ¹⁶ tn Or “troubles,” “suffering.” See Acts 19:21; 21:4, 11.

[20:24]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “soul.”

[20:24]  ¹⁸ tn Or “I do not consider my life worth a single word.” According to BDAG 599 s.v. λόγος 1.a.α, “In the textually uncertain pass. Ac 20:24 the text as it stands in N., οὐδενὸς λόγου (v.l. λόγον) ποιοῦμαι τὴν ψυχὴν τιμίαν, may well mean: I do not consider my life worth a single word (cp. λόγου ἄξιον [ἄξιος 1a] and our ‘worth mention’).”

[20:24]  ¹⁹ tn BDAG 1106 s.v. ὡς 9 describes this use as “a final particle, expressing intention/purpose, with a view to, in order to.”

[20:24]  ²⁰ tn Grk “course.” See L&N 42.26, “(a figurative extension of meaning of δρόμος ‘race’) a task or function involving continuity, serious, effort, and possibly obligation – ‘task, mission’…Ac 20:24.” On this Pauline theme see also Phil 1:19-26; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 4:6-7.

[20:24]  ²¹ tn Or “to the gospel.”

[20:1]  ²² tn Or “exhorting.”

[20:1]  ²³ tn Or “and taking leave of them.”

[20:1]  ²⁴ sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

[1:1]  ²⁵ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.