Psalms 119:63

119:63 I am a friend to all your loyal followers, ¹ 

and to those who keep your precepts.

Proverbs 8:31

8:31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, ² 

and delighting ³  in its people. ⁴ 

Proverbs 13:20

13:20 The one who associates ⁵  with the wise grows wise,

but a companion of fools suffers harm. ⁶ 

The Song of Songs 7:10

Poetic Refrain: Mutual Possession

The Beloved about Her Lover:

7:10 I am my beloved’s,

and he desires me! ⁷ 

Isaiah 62:4

62:4 You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,”

and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.”

Indeed, ⁸  you will be called “My Delight is in Her,” ⁹ 

and your land “Married.” ¹⁰ 

For the Lord will take delight in you,

and your land will be married to him. ¹¹ 

Ephesians 5:25-27

5:25 Husbands, love your ¹²  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her ¹³  with the washing of the water by the word, 5:27 so that he ¹⁴  may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. ¹⁵ 

Ephesians 5:1

Live in Love

5:1 Therefore, be ¹⁶  imitators of God as dearly loved children

Ephesians 3:14-17

Prayer for Strengthened Love

3:14 For this reason ¹⁷  I kneel ¹⁸  before the Father, ¹⁹  3:15 from ²⁰  whom every family ²¹  in heaven and on the earth is named. 3:16 I pray that ²²  according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

[119:63]  ¹ tn Heb “to all who fear you.”

[8:31]  ² tn The two words are synonymous in general and so could be taken to express a superlative idea – the “whole world” (cf. NIV, NCV). But תֵּבֵל (tevel) also means the inhabited world, and so the construct may be interpreted as a partitive genitive.

[8:31]  ³ tn Heb “and my delights” [were] with/in.”

[8:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “the sons of man.”

[13:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “walks.” When used with the preposition אֶת (’et, “with”), the verb הָלַךְ (halakh, “to walk”) means “to associate with” someone (BDB 234 s.v. הָלַךְ II.3.b; e.g., Mic 6:8; Job 34:8). The active participle of הָלַךְ (“to walk”) stresses continual, durative action. One should stay in close association with the wise, and move in the same direction they do.

[13:20]  ⁶ tn The verb form יֵרוֹעַ (yeroa’) is the Niphal imperfect of רָעַע (ra’a’), meaning “to suffer hurt.” Several have attempted to parallel the repetition in the wordplay of the first colon. A. Guillaume has “he who associates with fools will be left a fool” (“A Note on the Roots רִיע, יָרַע, and רָעַע in Hebrew,” JTS 15 [1964]: 294). Knox translated the Vulgate thus: “Fool he ends that fool befriends” (cited by D. Kidner, Proverbs [TOTC], 104).

[7:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “his desire is for me” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[62:4]  ⁸ tn Or “for”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “but.”

[62:4]  ⁹ tn Hebrew חֶפְצִי־בָהּ (kheftsi-vah), traditionally transliterated “Hephzibah” (so KJV, ASV, NIV).

[62:4]  ¹⁰ tn Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bÿ’ulah), traditionally transliterated “Beulah” (so KJV, ASV, NIV).

[62:4]  ¹¹ tn That is, the land will be restored to the Lord’s favor and once again enjoy his blessing and protection. To indicate the land’s relationship to the Lord, the words “to him” have been supplied at the end of the clause.

[5:25]  ¹² tn The Greek article has been translated as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[5:26]  ¹³ tn The direct object “her” is implied, but not found in the Greek text. It has been supplied in the English translation to clarify the sense of the passage.

[5:27]  ¹⁴ tn The use of the pronoun αὐτός (autos) is intensive and focuses attention on Christ as the one who has made the church glorious.

[5:27]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “but in order that it may be holy and blameless.”

[5:1]  ¹⁶ tn Or “become.”

[3:14]  ¹⁷ sn For this reason resumes the point begun in v. 1, after a long parenthesis.

[3:14]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “I bend my knees.”

[3:14]  ¹⁹ tc Most Western and Byzantine witnesses, along with a few others (א² D F G Ψ 0278 1881 Ï lat sy), have “of our Lord Jesus Christ” after “Father,” but such an edifying phrase cannot explain the rise of the reading that lacks it, especially when the shorter reading is attested by early and important witnesses such as Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C P 6 33 81 365 1175 1739 co Or Hier.

[3:15]  ²⁰ tn Or “by.”

[3:15]  ²¹ tn Or “the whole family.”

[3:16]  ²² tn Grk “that.” In Greek v. 16 is a subordinate clause to vv. 14-15.