Psalms 130:4

130:4 But ¹  you are willing to forgive, ² 

so that you might ³  be honored. ⁴ 

John 5:14

5:14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, ⁵  lest anything worse happen to you.”

John 8:11

8:11 She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]] ⁶ 

Acts 3:26

3:26 God raised up ⁷  his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning ⁸  each one of you from your iniquities.” ⁹ 

Galatians 4:9

4:9 But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless ¹⁰  basic forces? ¹¹  Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? ¹² 

Galatians 4:2

4:2 But he is under guardians ¹³  and managers until the date set by his ¹⁴  father.

Galatians 2:19

2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Hebrews 10:26-29

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ¹⁵  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ¹⁶  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ¹⁷  10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ¹⁸  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ¹⁹  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ²⁰  the Son of God, and profanes ²¹  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ²²  and insults the Spirit of grace?

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 ²³  no further consciousness of sin?

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.

Revelation 2:4-5

2:4 But I have this against you: You have departed ²⁴  from your first love! 2:5 Therefore, remember from what high state ²⁵  you have fallen and repent! Do ²⁶  the deeds you did at the first; ²⁷  if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place – that is, if you do not repent. ²⁸ 

Revelation 3:19

3:19 All those ²⁹  I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

[130:4]  ¹ tn Or “surely.”

[130:4]  ² tn Heb “for with you [there is] forgiveness.”

[130:4]  ³ tn Or “consequently you are.”

[130:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “feared.”

[5:14]  ⁵ tn Since this is a prohibition with a present imperative, the translation “stop sinning” is sometimes suggested. This is not likely, however, since the present tense is normally used in prohibitions involving a general condition (as here) while the aorist tense is normally used in specific instances. Only when used opposite the normal usage (the present tense in a specific instance, for example) would the meaning “stop doing what you are doing” be appropriate.

[8:11]  ⁶ tc The earliest and best mss do not contain 7:53–8:11 (see note on 7:53).

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Grk “God raising up his servant, sent him.” The participle ἀναστήσας (anasthsa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. Some translations (e.g., NIV, NRSV) render this participle as temporal (“when God raised up his servant”).

[3:26]  ⁸ sn The picture of turning is again seen as the appropriate response to the message. See v. 19 above. In v. 19 it was “turning to,” here it is “turning away from.” The direction of the two metaphors is important.

[3:26]  ⁹ tn For the translation of plural πονηρία (ponhria) as “iniquities,” see G. Harder, TDNT 6:565. The plural is important, since for Luke turning to Jesus means turning away from sins, not just the sin of rejecting Jesus.

[4:9]  ¹⁰ tn Or “useless.” See L&N 65.16.

[4:9]  ¹¹ tn See the note on the phrase “basic forces” in 4:3.

[4:9]  ¹² tn Grk “basic forces, to which you want to be enslaved…” Verse 9 is a single sentence in the Greek text, but has been divided into two in the translation because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence.

[4:2]  ¹³ tn The Greek term translated “guardians” here is ἐπίτροπος (epitropo"), whose semantic domain overlaps with that of παιδαγωγός (paidagwgo") according to L&N 36.5.

[4:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the,” but the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[10:26]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

[10:27]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

[10:27]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “the enemies.”

[10:28]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ¹⁹ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:29]  ²⁰ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ²¹ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ²² tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

[10:2]  ²³ tn Grk “the worshipers, having been purified once for all, would have.”

[2:4]  ²⁴ tn The Greek word translated “departed from” (ἀφίημι, afihmi; L&N 15.48) can actually be used of divorce (L&N 34.78), so the imagery here is very strong.

[2:5]  ²⁵ tn Grk “from where,” but status is in view rather than physical position. On this term BDAG 838 s.v. πόθεν 1 states, “from what place? from where?…In imagery μνημόνευε πόθεν πέπτωκες remember from what (state) you have fallen Rv 2:5.”

[2:5]  ²⁶ tn Grk “and do” (a continuation of the previous sentence in the Greek text). For stylistic reasons in English a new sentence was started here in the translation. The repeated mention of repenting at the end of the verse suggests that the intervening material (“do the deeds you did at first”) specifies how the repentance is to be demonstrated.

[2:5]  ²⁷ tn Or “you did formerly.”

[2:5]  ²⁸ tn Although the final clause is somewhat awkward, it is typical of the style of Revelation.

[3:19]  ²⁹ tn The Greek pronoun ὅσος (Josos) means “as many as” and can be translated “All those” or “Everyone.”