Discovery Box| (0.23) | (Jos 22:5) | 1 tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.” |
| (0.23) | (1Jo 3:17) | 3 tn Here a subjective genitive, indicating God’s love for us—the love which comes from God—appears more likely because of the parallelism with “eternal life” (ζωὴν αἰώνιον, zōēn aiōnion) in 3:15, which also comes from God. |
| (0.23) | (Exo 20:6) | 1 tn Literally “doing loyal love” (עֹשֶׂה חֶסֶד, ʿoseh khesed). The noun refers to God’s covenant loyalty, his faithful love to those who belong to him. These are members of the covenant, recipients of grace, the people of God, whom God will preserve and protect from evil and its effects. |
| (0.23) | (1Jo 4:12) | 3 tn The phrase “his [God’s] love is perfected (τετελειωμένη ἐστίν, teteleiōmenē estin) in us” in 4:12 is difficult. First it is necessary to decide whether αὐτοῦ (autou), which refers to God, is (1) subjective (God’s love for us) or (2) objective (our love for God). It is clear that a subjective genitive, stressing God’s love for us, is in view here because the immediate context, 4:11a, has believers as the objects of God’s love (ὁ θεὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, ho theos ēgapēsen hēmas). The entire phrase ἡ ἀγάπη αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν τετελειωμένη ἐστίν (hē agapē autou en hēmin teteleiōmenē estin) then refers to what happens when believers love one another (note the protasis of the conditional sentence in 4:12, ἐάν ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους [ean agapōmen allēlous]). The love that comes from God, the love that he has for us, reaches perfection in our love for others, which is what God wants and what believers are commanded to do (see 3:23b). |
| (0.23) | (Amo 4:4) | 1 sn Bethel and Gilgal were important formal worship centers because of their importance in Israel’s history. Here the Lord ironically urges the people to visit these places so they can increase their sin against him. Their formal worship, because it was not accompanied by social justice, only made them more guilty in God’s sight by adding hypocrisy to their list of sins. Obviously, theirs was a twisted view of the Lord. They worshiped a god of their own creation in order to satisfy their religious impulses (see 4:5: “For you love to do this”). Note that none of the rituals listed in 4:4-5 have to do with sin. |
| (0.22) | (2Sa 5:10) | 2 tn Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.” |
| (0.22) | (Psa 83:16) | 3 tn Heb “your name,” which stands here for God’s person. |
| (0.22) | (Psa 74:2) | 1 tn Heb “your assembly,” which pictures God’s people as an assembled community. |
| (0.22) | (Psa 52:9) | 5 tn Heb “your name.” God’s “name” refers here to his reputation and revealed character. |
| (0.22) | (1Sa 7:8) | 2 tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.” |
| (0.22) | (Deu 3:24) | 3 tn Heb “your strong hand” (so NIV), a symbol of God’s activity. |
| (0.22) | (Psa 89:51) | 1 tn Heb “[by] which your enemies, O Lord, taunt, [by] which they taunt [at] the heels of your anointed one.” |
| (0.22) | (Jdg 11:36) | 2 tn Heb “you opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to [what] went out from your mouth.” |
| (0.22) | (Psa 48:10) | 1 tn Heb “like your name, O God, so [is] your praise to the ends of the earth.” Here “name” refers to God’s reputation and revealed character. |
| (0.22) | (1Jo 3:23) | 2 sn His commandment refers to what follows—the commandment from God is to believe in his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another. |
| (0.22) | (Luk 7:47) | 1 sn She loved much. Jesus’ point is that the person who realizes how great a gift forgiveness is (because they have a deep sense of sin) has a great love for the one who forgives, that is, God. The woman’s acts of reverence to Jesus honored him as the one who brought God’s message of grace. |
| (0.22) | (Pro 15:9) | 4 sn God hates the way of the wicked, that is, their lifestyle and things they do. God loves those who pursue righteousness, the Piel verb signifying a persistent pursuit. W. G. Plaut says, “He who loves God will be moved to an active, persistent, and even dangerous search for justice” (Proverbs, 170). |
| (0.22) | (Psa 62:12) | 2 sn You repay men for what they do. The psalmist views God’s justice as a demonstration of both his power (see v. 11c) and his loyal love (see v. 12a). When God judges evildoers, he demonstrates loyal love to his people. |
| (0.22) | (Isa 9:7) | 6 sn In this context the Lord’s “zeal” refers to his intense devotion to and love for his people which prompts him to vindicate them and to fulfill his promises to David and the nation. |
| (0.22) | (Psa 36:5) | 2 sn The Lord’s loyal love/faithfulness is almost limitless. He is loyal and faithful to his creation and blesses mankind and the animal kingdom with physical life and sustenance (vv. 6-9). |
