Psalms 119:59-60

119:59 I consider my actions ¹ 

and follow ²  your rules.

119:60 I keep your commands

eagerly and without delay. ³ 

Psalms 119:104

119:104 Your precepts give me discernment.

Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. ⁴ 

Psalms 119:126

119:126 It is time for the Lord to act –

they break your law!

Psalms 18:23

18:23 I was innocent before him,

and kept myself from sinning. ⁵ 

Proverbs 1:15

1:15 My child, do not go down ⁶  their way, ⁷ 

withhold yourself ⁸  from their path; ⁹ 

Isaiah 53:6

53:6 All of us had wandered off like sheep;

each of us had strayed off on his own path,

but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 55:7

55:7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle ¹¹ 

and sinful people their plans. ¹² 

They should return ¹³  to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, ¹⁴ 

and to their God, for he will freely forgive them. ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 2:36

2:36 Why do you constantly go about

changing your political allegiances? ¹⁶ 

You will get no help from Egypt

just as you got no help from Assyria. ¹⁷ 

Titus 2:11-12

2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. ¹⁸  2:12 It trains us ¹⁹  to reject godless ways ²⁰  and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Titus 2:1

Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching

2:1 But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with ²¹  sound teaching.

Titus 2:1-2

Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching

2:1 But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with ²²  sound teaching. 2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, ²³  sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. ²⁴ 

Titus 3:10-11

3:10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings. 3:11 You know ²⁵  that such a person is twisted by sin ²⁶  and is conscious of it himself. ²⁷ 

[119:59]  ¹ tn Heb “my ways.”

[119:59]  ² tn Heb “and I turn my feet toward.”

[119:60]  ³ tn Heb “I hurry and I do not delay to keep your commands.”

[119:104]  ⁵ tn Heb “every false path.”

[18:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “from my sin,” that is, from making it my own in any way.

[1:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “do not walk.”

[1:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the way with them.”

[1:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your foot.” The term “foot” (רֶגֶל, regel) is a synecdoche of part (= your foot) for the whole person (= yourself).

[1:15]  ¹² sn The word “path” (נְתִיבָה, nÿtivah) like the word “way” (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) is used as an idiom (developed from a hypocatastasis), meaning “conduct, course of life.”

[53:6]  ¹¹ tn Elsewhere the Hiphil of פָגַע (paga’) means “to intercede verbally” (Jer 15:11; 36:25) or “to intervene militarily” (Isa 59:16), but neither nuance fits here. Apparently here the Hiphil is the causative of the normal Qal meaning, “encounter, meet, touch.” The Qal sometimes refers to a hostile encounter or attack; when used in this way the object is normally introduced by the preposition -בְּ (bet, see Josh 2:16; Judg 8:21; 15:12, etc.). Here the causative Hiphil has a double object – the Lord makes “sin” attack “him” (note that the object attacked is introduced by the preposition -בְּ. In their sin the group was like sheep who had wandered from God’s path. They were vulnerable to attack; the guilt of their sin was ready to attack and destroy them. But then the servant stepped in and took the full force of the attack.

[55:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “Let the wicked one abandon his way.” The singular is collective.

[55:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the man of evil his thoughts.” The singular is collective.

[55:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “let him return.” The singular is collective, meaning “let them.”

[55:7]  ¹⁶ tn The imperfect with vav (ו) conjunctive after the jussive indicates purpose/result.

[55:7]  ¹⁷ sn The appeal and promise of vv. 6-7 echoes the language of Deut 4:25-31; 30:1-10; and 1 Kgs 8:46-53, all of which anticipate the exile and speak of the prerequisites for restoration.

[2:36]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “changing your way.” The translation follows the identification of the Hebrew verb here as a defective writing of a form (תֵּזְלִי [tezÿli] instead of תֵּאזְלִי [te’zÿli]) from a verb meaning “go/go about” (אָזַל [’azal]; cf. BDB 23 s.v. אָזַל). Most modern English versions, commentaries, and lexicons read it from a root meaning “to treat cheaply [or lightly]” (תָּזֵלִּי [tazelli] from the root זָלַל (zalal); cf. HALOT 261 s.v. זָלַל); hence, “Why do you consider it such a small matter to…”

[2:36]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “You will be ashamed/disappointed by Egypt, just as you were ashamed/ disappointed by Assyria.”

[2:11]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “all men”; but ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpois) is generic here, referring to both men and women.

[2:12]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “training us” (as a continuation of the previous clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 by translating the participle παιδεύουσα (paideuousa) as a finite verb and supplying the pronoun “it” as subject.

[2:12]  ²⁰ tn Grk “ungodliness.”

[2:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.).

[2:1]  ²³ tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.).

[2:2]  ²⁵ tn Or “sensible.”

[2:2]  ²⁶ sn Temperate…in endurance. See the same cluster of virtues in 1 Thess 1:3 and 1 Cor 13:13.

[3:11]  ²⁷ tn Grk “knowing” (as a continuation of the previous clause).

[3:11]  ²⁸ tn Grk “is perverted and is sinning.”

[3:11]  ²⁹ tn Grk “is sinning, being self-condemned.”