1 Samuel 2:30

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say ¹  that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve ²  me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! ³  For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

Mazmur 119:46

119:46 I will speak ⁴  about your regulations before kings

and not be ashamed.

Matius 10:32-33

10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges ⁵  me before people, I will acknowledge ⁶  before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Roma 10:9-10

10:9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord ⁷  and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10:10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness ⁸  and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation. ⁹ 

Roma 10:2

10:2 For I can testify that they are zealous for God, ¹⁰  but their zeal is not in line with the truth. ¹¹ 

Titus 2:12

2:12 It trains us ¹²  to reject godless ways ¹³  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 ¹⁴  sound teaching.

Yohanes 2:23

Jesus at the Passover Feast

2:23 Now while Jesus ¹⁵  was in Jerusalem ¹⁶  at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. ¹⁷ 

Wahyu 2:10

2:10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown ¹⁸  into prison so you may be tested, ¹⁹  and you will experience suffering ²⁰  for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself. ²¹ 

Wahyu 2:13

2:13 ‘I know ²²  where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet ²³  you continue to cling ²⁴  to my name and you have not denied your ²⁵  faith in me, ²⁶  even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, ²⁷  who was killed in your city ²⁸  where Satan lives.

Wahyu 3:4-5

3:4 But you have a few individuals ²⁹  in Sardis who have not stained ³⁰  their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed ³¹  in white, because they are worthy. 3:5 The one who conquers ³²  will be dressed like them ³³  in white clothing, ³⁴  and I will never ³⁵  erase ³⁶  his name from the book of life, but ³⁷  will declare ³⁸  his name before my Father and before his angels.

[2:30]  ¹ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:30]  ² tn Heb “walk about before.”

[2:30]  ³ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

[119:46]  ⁴ tn The series of four cohortatives with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive in vv. 46-48 list further consequences of the anticipated positive divine response to the request made in v. 43.

[10:32]  ⁵ tn Or “confesses.”

[10:32]  ⁶ tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”

[10:32]  sn This acknowledgment will take place at the judgment. On Jesus and judgment, see Luke 22:69; Acts 10:42-43; 17:31.

[10:9]  ⁷ tn Or “the Lord.” The Greek construction, along with the quotation from Joel 2:32 in v. 13 (in which the same “Lord” seems to be in view) suggests that κύριον (kurion) is to be taken as “the Lord,” that is, Yahweh. Cf. D. B. Wallace, “The Semantics and Exegetical Significance of the Object-Complement Construction in the New Testament,” GTJ 6 (1985): 91-112.

[10:10]  ⁸ tn Grk “believes to righteousness.”

[10:10]  ⁹ tn Grk “confesses to salvation.”

[10:2]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “they have a zeal for God.”

[10:2]  ¹¹ tn Grk “in accord with knowledge.”

[10:2]  sn Their zeal is not in line with the truth means that the Jews’ passion for God was strong, but it ignored the true righteousness of God (v. 3; cf. also 3:21).

[2:12]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Grk “ungodliness.”

[2:1]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “say what is fitting for sound teaching” (introducing the behavior called for in this chapter.).

[2:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:23]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:23]  ¹⁷ sn Because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. The issue here is not whether their faith was genuine or not, but what its object was. These individuals, after seeing the miracles, believed Jesus to be the Messiah. They most likely saw in him a political-eschatological figure of some sort. That does not, however, mean that their concept of “Messiah” was the same as Jesus’ own, or the author’s.

[2:10]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “is about to throw some of you,” but the force is causative in context.

[2:10]  ¹⁹ tn Or “tempted.”

[2:10]  ²⁰ tn Or “experience persecution,” “will be in distress” (see L&N 22.2).

[2:10]  ²¹ tn Grk “crown of life,” with the genitive “of life” (τῆς ζωῆς, th" zwh") functioning in apposition to “crown” (στέφανον, stefanon): “the crown that consists of life.”

[2:13]  ²² tc The shorter reading adopted here has superior ms support (א A C P 2053 al latt co), while the inclusion of “your works and” (τὰ ἔργα σου καί, ta erga sou kai) before “where you reside” is supported by the Byzantine witnesses and is evidently a secondary attempt to harmonize the passage with 2:2, 19; 3:1, 8, 15.

[2:13]  ²³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast between their location and their faithful behavior.

[2:13]  ²⁴ tn The present indicative verb κρατεῖς (kratei") has been translated as a progressive present.

[2:13]  ²⁵ tn Grk “the faith”; here the Greek article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[2:13]  ²⁶ tn Grk “the faith of me” (τὴν πίστιν μου, thn pistin mou) with the genitive “of me” (μου) functioning objectively.

[2:13]  ²⁷ tn Or “martyr.” The Greek word μάρτυς can mean either “witness” or “martyr.”

[2:13]  ²⁸ tn Grk “killed among you.” The term “city” does not occur in the Greek text of course, but the expression παρ᾿ ὑμῖν, ὅπου ὁ σατανᾶς κατοικεῖ (par’ Jumin, {opou Jo satana" katoikei) seems to indicate that this is what is meant. See G. B. Caird, Revelation (HNTC), 36-38.

[3:4]  ²⁹ tn Grk “a few names”; here ὄνομα (onoma) is used by figurative extension to mean “person” or “people”; according to L&N 9.19 there is “the possible implication of existence or relevance as individuals.”

[3:4]  ³⁰ tn Or “soiled” (so NAB, NRSV, NIV); NCV “have kept their clothes unstained”; CEV “have not dirtied your clothes with sin.”

[3:4]  ³¹ tn The word “dressed” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[3:5]  ³² tn Or “who overcomes.”

[3:5]  ³³ tn Grk “thus.”

[3:5]  ³⁴ tn Or “white robes.”

[3:5]  ³⁵ tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mh), the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek.

[3:5]  ³⁶ tn Or “will never wipe out.”

[3:5]  ³⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[3:5]  ³⁸ tn Grk “will confess.”