Kejadian 32:6

32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

Keluaran 32:13

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ¹  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ²  I will give to your descendants, ³  and they will inherit it forever.’”

Bilangan 23:19

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a human being, ⁴  that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ⁵ 

Bilangan 23:1

Balaam Blesses Israel

23:1 ⁶ Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

1 Samuel 15:29

15:29 The Preeminent One ⁷  of Israel does not go back on his word ⁸  or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.” ⁹ 

Matius 24:35

24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹⁰ 

Matius 24:2

24:2 And he said to them, ¹¹  “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, ¹²  not one stone will be left on another. ¹³  All will be torn down!” ¹⁴ 

Titus 2:13

2:13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing ¹⁵  of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. ¹⁶ 

Titus 1:2

1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began. ¹⁷ 

Ibrani 6:17

6:17 In the same way ¹⁸  God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, ¹⁹  and so he intervened with an oath,

[32:13]  ¹ tn Heb “your seed.”

[32:13]  ² tn “about” has been supplied.

[32:13]  ³ tn Heb “seed.”

[23:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “son of man.”

[23:19]  ⁵ tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.

[23:1]  ⁶ sn The first part of Balaam’s activity ends in disaster for Balak – he blesses Israel. The chapter falls into four units: the first prophecy (vv. 1-10), the relocation (vv. 11-17), the second prophecy (vv. 18-24), and a further location (vv. 25-30).

[15:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “splendor,” used here by metonymy as a title for the Lord.

[15:29]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “does not lie.”

[15:29]  ⁹ sn This observation marks the preceding statement (v. 28) as an unconditional, unalterable decree. When God makes such a decree he will not alter it or change his mind. This does not mean that God never deviates from his stated intentions or changes his mind. On the contrary, several passages describe him as changing his mind. In fact, his willingness to do so is one of his fundamental divine attributes (see Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2). For a fuller discussion see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Change His Mind?” BSac 152 (1995): 387-99.

[24:35]  ¹⁰ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.

[24:2]  ¹¹ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[24:2]  ¹² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:2]  ¹³ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[24:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”

[2:13]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “the blessed hope and glorious appearing.”

[2:13]  ¹⁶ tn The terms “God and Savior” both refer to the same person, Jesus Christ. This is one of the clearest statements in the NT concerning the deity of Christ. The construction in Greek is known as the Granville Sharp rule, named after the English philanthropist-linguist who first clearly articulated the rule in 1798. Sharp pointed out that in the construction article-noun-καί-noun (where καί [kai] = “and”), when two nouns are singular, personal, and common (i.e., not proper names), they always had the same referent. Illustrations such as “the friend and brother,” “the God and Father,” etc. abound in the NT to prove Sharp’s point. The only issue is whether terms such as “God” and “Savior” could be considered common nouns as opposed to proper names. Sharp and others who followed (such as T. F. Middleton in his masterful The Doctrine of the Greek Article) demonstrated that a proper name in Greek was one that could not be pluralized. Since both “God” (θεός, qeos) and “savior” (σωτήρ, swthr) were occasionally found in the plural, they did not constitute proper names, and hence, do fit Sharp’s rule. Although there have been 200 years of attempts to dislodge Sharp’s rule, all attempts have been futile. Sharp’s rule stands vindicated after all the dust has settled. For more information on Sharp’s rule see ExSyn 270-78, esp. 276. See also 2 Pet 1:1 and Jude 4.

[1:2]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “before eternal ages.”

[6:17]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “in which.”

[6:17]  ¹⁹ tn Or “immutable” (here and in v. 18); Grk “the unchangeableness of his purpose.”