Discovery Box| (0.42) | (2Pe 1:10) | 2 sn Make sure of your calling and election. The author is not saying that virtue and holiness produce salvation, but that virtue and holiness are the evidence of salvation. |
| (0.42) | (1Ti 2:8) | 3 sn Paul uses a common ancient posture in prayer (lifting up holy hands) as a figure of speech for offering requests from a holy life (without anger or dispute). |
| (0.42) | (Rom 1:4) | 2 tn Grk “spirit of holiness.” Some interpreters take the phrase to refer to Christ’s own inner spirit, which was characterized by holiness. |
| (0.42) | (Mat 5:48) | 1 sn This remark echoes OT statements in Lev 11:44-45 and Lev 19:2: “you must be holy as I am holy.” |
| (0.42) | (Amo 2:7) | 6 tn Heb “my holy name.” Here “name” is used metonymically for God’s moral character or reputation, while “holy” has a moral and ethical connotation. |
| (0.42) | (Isa 29:23) | 3 sn Holy One of Jacob is similar to the phrase “Holy One of Israel” common throughout Isaiah; see the at Isa 1:4. |
| (0.42) | (Job 5:1) | 3 tn The LXX has rendered “holy ones” as “holy angels” (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT). The LXX has interpreted the verb in the colon too freely: “if you will see.” |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
| (0.42) | (1Sa 2:9) | 2 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the plural (“his holy ones”) rather than the singular (“his holy one”) of the Kethib. |
| (0.42) | (Lev 22:2) | 1 tn Heb “holy things,” which means the “holy offerings” in this context, as the following verses show. The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Rev 11:2) | 5 sn The holy city appears to be a reference to Jerusalem. See also Luke 21:24. |
| (0.40) | (Eph 5:27) | 2 tn Grk “but in order that it may be holy and blameless.” |
| (0.40) | (Eph 4:24) | 2 tn Or “in righteousness and holiness which is based on truth” or “originated from truth.” |
| (0.40) | (Joh 11:48) | 2 tn Or “holy place”; Grk “our place” (a reference to the temple in Jerusalem). |
| (0.40) | (Luk 12:10) | 2 tn Grk “it will not be forgiven the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit.” |
| (0.40) | (Luk 1:21) | 3 tn Or “temple.” See the note on the phrase “the holy place” in v. 9. |
| (0.40) | (Luk 1:22) | 4 tn Or “temple.” See the note on the phrase “the holy place” in v. 9. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 51:5) | 4 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 50:29. |
| (0.40) | (Isa 63:18) | 2 tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 60:14) | 1 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4. |
