Psalms 49:15

49:15 But ¹  God will rescue ²  my life ³  from the power ⁴  of Sheol;

certainly ⁵  he will pull me to safety. ⁶  (Selah)

Psalms 84:11

84:11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. ⁷ 

The Lord bestows favor ⁸  and honor;

he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity. ⁹ 

Luke 23:46

23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” ¹⁰  And after he said this he breathed his last.

John 14:3

14:3 And if I go and make ready ¹¹  a place for you, I will come again and take you ¹²  to be with me, ¹³  so that where I am you may be too.

John 17:5

17:5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side ¹⁴  with the glory I had with you before the world was created. ¹⁵ 

John 17:24

17:24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, ¹⁶  so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world ¹⁷ .

Acts 7:59

7:59 They ¹⁸  continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Acts 7:2

7:2 So he replied, ¹⁹  “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather ²⁰  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²²  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:4-5

1:4 since ²³  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints. 1:5 Your faith and love have arisen ²⁴  from the hope laid up ²⁵  for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel ²⁶ 

[49:15]  ¹ tn Or “certainly.”

[49:15]  ² tn Or “redeem.”

[49:15]  ³ tn Or “me.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

[49:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

[49:15]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[49:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “he will take me.” To improve the poetic balance of the verse, some move the words “from the power of Sheol” to the following line. The verse would then read: “But God will rescue my life; / from the power of Sheol he will certainly deliver me” (cf. NEB).

[84:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “[is] a sun and a shield.” The epithet “sun,” though rarely used of Israel’s God in the OT, was a well-attested royal title in the ancient Near East. For several examples from Ugaritic texts, the Amarna letters, and Assyrian royal inscriptions, see R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 131, n. 2.

[84:11]  ⁸ tn Or “grace.”

[84:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “he does not withhold good to those walking in integrity.”

[23:46]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Ps 31:5. It is a psalm of trust. The righteous, innocent sufferer trusts in God. Luke does not have the cry of pain from Ps 22:1 (cf. Matt 27:46; Mark 15:34), but notes Jesus’ trust instead.

[14:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “prepare.”

[14:3]  ¹² tn Or “bring you.”

[14:3]  ¹³ tn Grk “to myself.”

[17:5]  ¹⁴ tn Or “in your presence”; Grk “with yourself.” The use of παρά (para) twice in this verse looks back to the assertion in John 1:1 that the Word (the Λόγος [Logos], who became Jesus of Nazareth in 1:14) was with God (πρὸς τὸν θεόν, pro" ton qeon). Whatever else may be said, the statement in 17:5 strongly asserts the preexistence of Jesus Christ.

[17:5]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “before the world was.” The word “created” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

[17:24]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the ones you have given me, I want these to be where I am with me.”

[17:24]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “before the foundation of the world.”

[7:59]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “And they.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here; a new sentence is begun instead.

[7:2]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “said.”

[7:2]  ²⁰ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

[1:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ²² tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:4]  ²³ tn The adverbial participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is understood to be temporal and translated with “since.” A causal idea may also be in the apostle’s mind, but the context emphasizes temporal ideas, e.g., “from the day” (v. 6).

[1:5]  ²⁴ tn Col 1:3-8 form one long sentence in the Greek text and have been divided at the end of v. 4 and v. 6 and within v. 6 for clarity, in keeping with the tendency in contemporary English toward shorter sentences. Thus the phrase “Your faith and love have arisen from the hope” is literally “because of the hope.” The perfect tense “have arisen” was chosen in the English to reflect the fact that the recipients of the letter had acquired this hope at conversion in the past, but that it still remains and motivates them to trust in Christ and to love one another.

[1:5]  ²⁵ tn BDAG 113 s.v. ἀπόκειμαι 2 renders ἀποκειμένην (apokeimenhn) with the expression “reserved” in this verse.

[1:5]  ²⁶ tn The term “the gospel” (τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, tou euangeliou) is in apposition to “the word of truth” (τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀληθείας, tw logw th" alhqeia") as indicated in the translation.